As summer finally kicked into gear in France, the issue we thought we’d be grappling with was whether the historically filthy Seine would be clean enough for Olympic athletes to swim in. Instead, the French are being asked whether they should open the gates of power to the National Rally, a party co-founded by a member of the Waffen-SS and a man who described the Nazi gas chambers as a mere “detail”.
This weekend, France will vote in the first round of a snap poll that comes on the heels of a devastating result for President Emmanuel Macron in the recent election for the
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