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PREVIEW: #MACRON: #STARMER: Conversation with colleague Joseph Sternberg in London for the WSJ re the French elections and what it may mean for the amiable regard of the EU by the new PM Keir Starmer and his majority Labour. More later.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 16 July 2024

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PREVIEW: #MACRON: #STARMER: Conversation with colleague Joseph Sternberg in London for the WSJ re the French elections and what it may mean for the amiable regard of the EU by the new PM Keir Starmer and his majority Labour. More later.

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Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

0:10.0

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

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Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

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All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

0:23.0

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

0:26.0

Piento Ferries, there is another way.

0:29.0

This is John Bachelor, speaking with my colleague Joseph Sternberg of the Wall Street Journal editorial board.

0:35.6

He's in London.

0:36.8

He writes the political economics column and he's written of the French election, the strange

0:41.2

results of the French election, reversing the order of the first round

0:45.8

in the second round.

0:48.0

Asking also about what this means, weakened the Macron or certainly a different macron for the United Kingdom

0:55.3

which just went through its own election cycle and Kirstarmer firmly in

0:59.4

control of the majority labor. What does this mean for the future of the UK and France, the

1:05.2

UK and the EU? Joe has some thoughts in that

1:15.0

certainly a lot of leaders in the European Union would welcome a better

1:21.0

relationship with the UK just because it would be good for the

1:25.6

economy on both sides and I think that now particularly you know with a lot of

1:32.4

the political instability that's going on as you have these

1:36.8

realignments and the parties jostling with each other.

1:39.7

It would be beneficial for everyone if you could really get the economy working better and I think

1:45.5

that a better relationship with the EU and the UK would be part of that but unfortunately

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