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The main question surrounding the re-election of Macron is the uncertain balance of France’s flexilateral policy vis-à-vis the EU in a post-Brexit and COVID-19 context: Strengthening European integration by changing France’s practice towards the EU or taking an inter-governmentalist turn by using – in a very classical way – Europe as an “Archimedes’ lever” to defend national interests.
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Thierry Chopin, Université Catholique de Lille, ESPOL, France.
Samuel B. H. Faure, Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France.
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Chopin, T., Faure, S.B.H. Presidential Election 2022: A Euroclash Between a “Liberal” and a “Neo-Nationalist” France Is Coming. Intereconomics 56, 75–81 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-021-0957-x
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