I think that there's this deep desire to say in anglo america that france is in crisis. Bu the fact is that on the keymetric, who was in power in this ten year period, or how many people turned out to to vote, what did they vote for, France has come out more stable than britain or America. I really strongly agree with what sophy saidike, those figures for turnout in the united states would be extraordinary. Never heard of an amazing turnout er in the uk. And i think that we also need to recognize that whilst the british establishment completely lost control of the question of the country's membership of the european
For the second part of our analysis of one of the most tense elections in Europe of recent years, we hear from Sophie Pedder, Paris bureau chief at The Economist and author of Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the Quest to Reinvent a Nation. Sophie is joined by foreign-policy writer and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, Ben Judah, for a discussion about where France is headed next on both the World stage and closer to home. Hosting the discussion is Rosamund Urwin, Media Editor for the Sunday Times.
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