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The World Today: June & July 2017: Reshaping a Europe that can work

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Macron’s victory has brought relief but much needs to be done to prevent the Union falling apart, writes Brunello Rosa

Lonely Germany looks forward to a stronger partnership with Macron’s France, writes Jan Techau

North Koreans read about Pyongyang’s missile launch

David Martin Jones and MLR Smith analyse Trump’s thinking on North Korea

A delicate balancing act as Macron chooses his team to reform France, writes Françoise Boucek

Arun Jaitley, India’s Finance Minister, on a recent visit to London insisted that Brexit could not be seen as part of the global move towards protectionism

India isn’t wild about Brexit and trade talks could be tricky, warns Vidya Ram

Macron’s presidential win has broken the pessimism that paralysed the liberal mainstream after Brexit and Trump, writes Krastev

Populists made a mistake by aping the US president, writes Ivan Krastev

This was meant to be the year the populists shook the foundations of the European Union and Marine Le Pen rose from the rubble to claim the presidency of France. That did not happen, but it would be foolish to conclude that the EU is home and dry, argues Brunello Rosa in our cover story.

Articles

An Egyptian policeman inspects the scene of a bomb outside the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo

Helen Fitzwilliam on a novelist capturing a descent into chaos

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu points to the red line in Iran’s progress to a nuclear capability at a meeting at the UN general assembly in 2012

Simon Gass offers ways to keep the landmark agreement on track with Trump in the White House

White Van Man country: the Vote Leave headquarters in Romford

Hilary Clarke asks Romford, an Essex town full of Leavers, if it is having any second thoughts

The big dig: Channel Tunnel workers in 1992

Michael Binyon on the day UK’s umbilical cord to Europe was approved

A soldier stands guard at Najia Top in northwestern Pakistan

Judith Matloff on dealing with warmongers in the mountains

Chinese president Xi Jinping makes a toast at the Belt and Road Forum

Bill Hayton on how China’s future is being shaped by deference and trade

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Officer Cadet Fatma Hassan Seleh Mubarak Bin Hamdan wears a headscarf under her peaked cap at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

Two accounts of life for the foreigners who moved to Britain

British Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea

The little known centre-right politician was appointed prime minister in May to lead President Emmanuel Macron’s first government.

A master of diplomacy

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