A Crumbling Marriage

Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has fractured the Franco-German model that has been at the heart of Europe since WWII

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One of the consequences of Putin’s mindless invasion of Ukraine has been to shatter the post-war “gentlemen’s agreement” that has in many ways shaped Europe since the 1950s. In the post-war period, France was suffering from deep internal…