Should we view her score as a kind of a triumph of far right inevitablism? Or should we look at it er the other way, which is that actually maron has made the question of france's membership of the ur. So strong in the public debay over the last few years that even lepin has to pretend that she wants to remain in a both and is merely a sort of reformer. But my worry is that what i like about macron is bound up that i don't like about him. What i like about Macron is that when you look at many in very different ways, you've got this sort of politics of fantasy.
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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