All right, Alexander, let's talk about the new prime minister in France.

Maybe the new prime minister in France.

We will see how national rally and Le Pen votes, because that's going to be the deciding factor.

At least that's how it looks.

But Barnier, the man who negotiated opposite Boris Johnson, if I remember, EU guy, EU loyalist, globalists through and through.

But over the past couple of years, many analysts say he has moved more

towards conservative right viewpoints, more aligned with Le Pen. And the reporting is that Macron

called up Le Pen or they spoke with each other and they decided that Barnier may be the guy

and Le Pen could get behind him and they are ditching Melascham and Lucy Gess Gestis his pick.

So anyway, Barnier, interesting pick. What are your thoughts? Well, I think the first

thing to say is that if you generally, truly, honestly believe that over the last couple of years,

Barnier has had some great awakening and has moved away from being a committed supporter of the EU

project and the globalist project

and all of that and has become a sovereignist, a nationalist, a patriot person who wants to

reassert France and reassert it against the EU centre. Well, I have a really, really nice bridge

to sell you because I don't believe

any of that. I do think anybody in France thinks that at all. Michel Barnier, as you absolutely

rightly said, is an EU official. He is EU technocrats to his fingertips. The one thing I would say

about him is that he is cleverer. He's a lot more clever

and a lot more capable than many of the people who run things in Brussels now. He would have made

a much more impressive president of the commission than Ursula von der Leyen has done, though it must be said

that is not a difficult bar to exceed. But he is, he's a tough, capable, extremely clever, extremely

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