Emmanuel dexterity: Trump and Macron chat

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The meeting between France’s and America’s presidents had a familiarly chummy feel. We ask whether Emmanuel Macron’s <a href="https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/02/25/has-emmanuel-macron-managed-to-reason-with-donald-trump?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_s ...

Anglo-French relations have not been <a href="https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/07/04/macron-will-beat-trump-to-london?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.l ...

Donald Trump’s mission to bend higher education to his will maintains its <a href="https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/07/30/what-donald-trump-is-teaching-harvard?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.an ...

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