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Politiken: High stakes in France

If the French election results in Marine Le Pen’s nationalists forming a government, it could end up in a paralyzing deadlock with President Macron. The confusion is exacerbated by the fact that Olaf Scholz also received a thrashing from the far right at the EP election. The French-German axis, which has previously driven EU cooperation forward, is in crisis at a historically vulnerable moment.