The “optics” as the political comms advisers say, were especially powerful during the prime minister’s visit to Paris to mark Armistice Day. JD Vance says that Europe doesn’t share America’s values, which is wrong; he means that some European leaders happen not to share those of President-elect Trump. Mr Trump has a history of casting doubt on America’s willingness to …
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Blaming France has been the all-too predictable response when UK governments find themselves in trouble. There have been bilateral encounters on the sidelines of other gatherings – the most recent being Liz Truss’s make-up-and-mend meeting with Macron during a European leaders’ pow-wow in Prague last October, just weeks after she had notoriously declined to commit herself as to whether France …
For almost six centuries, the leaders of England saw France as their primary strategic challenge. The Anglo-French rivalry was so all-consuming — from the Hundred Years War through the Napoleonic Wars — that it resulted in the consolidation of territory and national identities in both countries, shaped dynastic successions, altered religious and linguistic developments, determined alliances and military involvement, and …