“We have a geography that binds us,” French president Emmanuel Macron declared today as he warmly welcomed “dear” Rishi Sunak and his ministers to Paris for the first UK-France summit in five long years.
Speaking from the Elysée Palace, Sunak appeared similarly enthusiastic. Following years of strain, he described today’s talks as ushering in a “new beginning” in Anglo-French relations.
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Despite the show of personal chumminess and close strategic alliance, the cold calculus of geopolitics was whirring beneath the surface.
Viewed from central Brittany, everything that isn’t local is far away and of only passing interest.
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