In this exclusive interview with Egypt’s Qahera News, EU ASEAN Center founder MN Firzli argues that Macron’s “main miscalculation has little to do with the country’s overrated, Americanized far right” — as it were more Nixonian than Vichyssoise

The impetuous French leader “thought he could easily divide and conquer the tri-ideology left field: Socialists (social democrats and Blairites), Green (centre left ecologists) and Far Left (ageing Trotskyite intellectuals and young Soviet-style militants)” … “French voters proved him wrong, delivering a surprise victory for the far left”

As a result, the French Parliament is now dangerously divided into three antagonistic blocs, two of which are openly hostile to NATO, Neoliberal economics and the European Commission. Things will be very complicated in the coming quarters… Interview w/ Dalia Abo Emera, news anchor, produced by Islam Abu Elmaged

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