French Revolution - could it be President Le Pen?
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Details:
April 26, 2017
6:30 pm
Royal Geographical Society, London SW7 2AR
speakers:
Andrew Neil, chairman, The Spectator Magazine Group
Melissa Bell, CNN Paris correspondent
Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, journalist and political commentator
Robert Tombs, professor of French History at St John's College, University of Cambridge
Jonathan Fenby, author and historian
Dominique Moïsi, founder and senior advisor, Ilfri (the French Institute for International Relations)
Description:
Is France on the brink of a political revolution? Marine Le Pen, former leader of the Front National, has made it through the first round of the French presidential election. Another outsider Emmanuel Macron, is now the only person standing between her and the Élysée Palace. A Le Pen victory, however unlikely it may seem, would be a political earthquake for the European Union. Should we welcome a shake-up in the cradle of European revolutions?