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Macron's Brexit swansong is about to unfold

9 September 2020

4:00 PM

9 September 2020

4:00 PM

At a solemn ceremony at the Panthéon to mark the 150th anniversary of the (re-)birth of the Republic, president Macron chose a 59-year-old anti-Brexit British expatriate to be one of five newly naturalised French citizens emblematic of what it means to become French. Macron does nothing without gauging its historical and political theatre.

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