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Home / Europe and Eurasia / The ‘old Europe’ vs. ‘new Europe’ paradigm is back
Europe and Eurasia, Grand strategy

April 17, 2023

The ‘old Europe’ vs. ‘new Europe’ paradigm is back

“Macron’s recent comments are evidence that even card-carrying members of ‘the West’ are uncomfortable with a vision of international order that divides the world into blocs,” wrote Peter Harris, a nonresident fellow of Defense Priorities, a Washington-based think tank. “On this question, Macron might actually be much closer to the median world leader than his critics would like to believe.”

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