Good article regarding Macron/rising nationalism
PARIS
Reuters
Published November 11, 2018
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Trump has been criticized for failing to visit a different American cemetery about 100 kilometres outside of Paris on Saturday. Rain grounded the helicopter Trump had planned to take, so he cancelled the trip rather than travel by any other means.
By contrast, in the week ahead of Sunday’s commemoration, Macron has been touring First World War battlefields in northern and eastern France, repeatedly warning in speeches of the resurgence of nationalism, saying it threatened the unity so carefully rebuilt in Europe over the past 70 years.
In one interview, he compared the political tone now to the 1930s, saying complacency towards unbridled nationalism then had opened the way for the rise of Hitler.
In part, his warnings seemed aimed at far-right parties that have gained ground across Europe in recent elections, including in France, where the National Front, now renamed the National Rally, has nudged ahead of Macron’s En Marche movement in the polls ahead of European Parliament elections next May.
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-macron-sends-stern-message-to-trump-others-on-remembrance-day-about/
A very historic and important speech by Macron today.
