• Home
• /
• Letters

End of the EU?

A victory for Marine Le Pen in early May would spell the end of the EU, leaving German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the final pillar of a crumbling world order.

The spotlight is now on France and its presidential election. At stake is the  Franco-German engine that has driven European integration and kept it at the centre of the post-war multilateral system. A victory for Marine Le Pen in early May would spell the end of the EU, leaving German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the final pillar of a crumbling world order. The country most refashioned by post-1945 internationalism would be its last bastion, surrounded by bilateralists in France, the UK, and Russia.
James S. Johnston, Dubai