With the situation finally becoming clear on who will be sitting around the EU negotiating table for France, next week is set to be dominated with speculation about what the new president will mean for the future of European politics.
Since the French rejected the EU constitution in 2005, France's Europe policy has been put on the backburner, something that affected the EU as a whole and particularly negotiations on a new-look treaty for the bloc.
The future of the EU will also be...
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