Denis MacShane is a former UK Europe Minister. He wrote the first biography of François Mitterrand and appears regularly on French TV and radio. His latest book is Brexiternity. The Uncertain Fate of Britain (IB Tauris-Bloomsbury).
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The spectre of President Le Pen haunts France
When he won in 2017 Macron was hailed as the new European leader who would stop the rise of the populist right. To...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBrexit will give neither Hitchens nor Mason the Europe they desire
We must avoid idealist visions of a post-EU continent.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The left returns to an old love – saying No to Europe
It is the politics of Europe’s current rulers that must be challenged, not the UK’s membership of the EU.
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Published in: oDRReading Russia is never easy
While there are Putinversteher to be found everywhere in Europe there seem to be no Europaversteher in Russia. Where...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Where is another Europe now?
Europe either hangs together or - as the American revolutionaries liked to point out - the nations of Europe will be...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The strange silence over Brexit
Despite the historic nature of a Brexit referendum, it has been worryingly absent during this election. Serious...