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The brawling in Britain over that June Brexit referendum has now spilled over across the Channel. Ahead of a Franco-British Summit staged on the World War I battlefields of the Somme, French economy minister Emmanuel Macron warned that should the UK leave the EU, be braced for a move home of French financial services from London. The summit coincides with the dismantling of the Jungle camp in Calais. Is the French handling of the crisis helping or hurting David Cameron's ‘Stay’ pitch?
It was clear from the outset that this campaign would upend French politics. Then with a little more than 24 hours of campaigning left a 39-year old convict targeted police on Paris' Champs-Elysées, killing an officer, injuring three, dying in a hail of bullets and stealing everyone's attention. How will this impact the election? With the top four candidates still neck-and-and neck, our panel of international journalists try to make sense of an election unlike any France has seen before.
Five days before the French vote, a friendly reminder from across the Channel: Theresa May springing the surprise of a snap general election in June to shore up support for the conservatives. What happens if she gets her wish? And what does it mean for France where two of the candidates both share Brexiteers' Eurosceptic views. Could there really one day soon be a Frexit?
Our international panel of journalists try to foresee how Britain will negotiate it’s Brexit after having triggered Article 50, Donald Trump’s roll back on Obama-era climate regulations, the outrage in France’s Chinese community after the police killing of a man in his apartment, the splintering of France’s left-wing parties in the run-up to the election, and Jacob Zuma’s cabinet reshuffle which leaves the ANC in turmoil.
It’s decision day for the UK as over 46 million people are registered to vote in the Brexit Referendum. And in the run up to voting day the polls have the Leave and Remain camps neck and neck. The campaign has been marked by bitter rhetoric, sometimes outright insults. Even the murder of British pro-EU lawmaker Jo Cox by a man linked to far-right and anti-EU groups did not stop the invective.
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