Playing roulette with Europe's fate

The wheel is turning and no one knows where the ball will stop, who will be the next president of France. This is the most important, and at the same time the most unpredictable, of elections. Not only for France but for Europe. France traditionally veers between long inertia and revolution, and we are at a point where growing numbers of voters are sick of the political elite yet, at the same time, don't want any more change in their lives.

The framework of politics is not clear, definitions are not self-evident. Does "conservative" cover the effort to introduce reforms to a bankrupt system so that the economy can deal with the growing burdens of the social state? Can "revolution" define the extreme right and extreme left rejecting any change or demanding a return to an imagined past? Perhaps this time the revolutionaries are centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron and the center...

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