Marine Lepen

The French showed us how one can defeat the constantly burgeoning current of populism, not only of the far right, which seeks to impose a different way of thinking by capitalising on rage and fear.

In a line from the French presidential debate that will be long remembered, about Marine Lepen taking out a loan from a Russian bank, Macron said that when she speaks to Russia, she speaks to her banker.

Despite the sigh of relief over Emmanuel Macron’s first-place finish, the first round of the French presidential elections sent a perfectly clear message that cannot be ignored.

It was first in Greece that supercilious political forces of imprudence, self-deception, and illusion won the day.