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Mercredi 21 juin 2017, réalisation: Joanna Bosse-Platière Strokes : The EU Is Alive and Well, But the FRANCE - EUROPE .............................3 Referendums Are Coming .............................................12 Marine Le Pen will have few friends in France’s new Editors : Europe's Unserious Plan for Greece ...............12 Parliament ....................................................................... 3 Ukraine’s Poroshenko Meets With Trump....................13 EN LIGNE - 2 Ministers Allied With Emmanuel Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko met with U.S. Macron Resign in France ................................................ 3 Vice President Mike Pence and then, briefly, enjoyed a Ethics probes hijack Macron’s ‘moralizing’ presidency . 4 “drop-in” visit with President Donald Trump on Ross : Emmanuel Macron Is Facing the ‘Mother of All Tuesday. ........................................................................13 Battles’ ............................................................................ 4 Vladimir Putin’s man in the Balkans ............................14 French Growth Picking Up as Macron Pursues Change . 5 Terrorism in Britain: How do you build bridges when 'enough is enough'? ......................................................... 6 INTERNATIONAL .............................. 15 Moghul : Trump's silence after attack on Muslims American Warplane Shoots Down Iranian-Made Drone speaks volumes ............................................................... 7 Over Syria .....................................................................15 The Political Kindling of the Grenfell Fire ..................... 7 U.S. Military Shoots Down 'Hostile' Drone in Syria ....15 Editorial : More Doubts Are Raised Over Mrs. May’s Podesta & Katulis : Trump’s silent surge in the Middle Leadership ....................................................................... 8 East — and the slippery slope to war ............................15 O’Sullivan : Theresa May's Troubles and 'The Saudi King Names Son Crown Prince, Upending Troubles' ......................................................................... 9 Royal Succession ..........................................................16 Britain’s path to hard Brexit revealed in queen’s Saudi King Salman Ousts Nephew as Crown Prince, speech.............................................................................. 9 Installs Son ....................................................................16 Merkel Signals Openness to Eurozone Reforms........... 10 Al-Shabaab Kills 15 in Latest Car Bomb Attack ..........17 Douglas Murray Book Excerpt: The Roots of the UNE - After Otto Warmbier’s death, tourism to North European Crisis ............................................................. 11 Korea comes under scrutiny ..........................................17 Revue de presse américaine du 21 juin 2017 1 UNE - China Falls Short on Curbing North Korea, Psaki: Democrats, don't lose your cool over Georgia Trump Says ................................................................... 18 vote ................................................................................29 Trump signals shifting approach to North Korea after Bruni : After Georgia Election, Democrats Are death of U.S. student ..................................................... 19 Demoralized, Again ......................................................29 Lewis : North Korea Would Not Hesitate to Kill You . 20 Jon Ossoff's Loss in Georgia Is a Gut Punch for North Korea & Otto Warmbier -- Brutal Murder Democrats .....................................................................30 Deserves U.S. Response ............................................... 20 Murphy : Jon Ossoff's $23 Million Loss Shows Dems High Noon in North Korea: Is Trump Ready for War? 21 Have No Idea How to Win in the Age of Trump ..........31 Why Trump’s Foreign Policy Can’t Be Stopped .......... 22 Shapiro : Apocalyptic Politics’ Dangerous Appeal, Left & Right ..................................................................31 Senate GOP leaders will present health bill this week, ETATS-UNIS ..................................... 23 even as divisions flare ...................................................32 UNE - Karen Handel Wins Georgia Special Election, Editorial : The Health Care of Millions Depends on a Fending Off Upstart Democrat ..................................... 24 Few Senators .................................................................33 UNE - GOP’s Karen Handel Beats Democrat Jon Editorial : GOP's secret Trumpcare bill will impact a Ossoff in Georgia .......................................................... 24 sixth of the U.S. economy. What could possibly go Republican Karen Handel defeats Democrat Jon wrong? ...........................................................................34 Ossoff in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District ............ 26 Republicans Will Continue to Stick With Secrecy as Rubin : In Georgia’s 6th District, is Handel’s victory Long as It Works ...........................................................34 of great consequence — or none at all? ........................ 27 Editorial : The U.S. government is still spying on Handel Georgia Victory, Ossoff Defeat Disrupts Anti Americans. Here are some fixes for that .......................35 Trump Narrative ........................................................... 27 O’Brien : Trump, Russia, and Those Shadowy Sater Trump spikes the ball after Georgia election win ......... 28 Deals at Bayrock ...........................................................36 Klaas : The Donald Trump hiring crisis means America's got no talent ..................................................39 Revue de presse américaine du 21 juin 2017 2 FRANCE - EUROPE Marine Le Pen will have few friends in France’s new Parliament By James While her father, the convicted the Le Pen family — pointing the In interviews with The Washington McAuley Holocaust denier Jean-Marie finger at one another in public. Post during the presidential Le Pen, and her niece, Marion campaign this spring, both Jean- Maréchal-Le Pen, have both served After that debacle, there were those Marie Le Pen and Marion Maréchal- — even among the party’s PARIS — A little more than a month in France’s Parliament, she never Le Pen, 27, emphasized that has. supporters — who said that the regardless of election outcomes, a ago, France’s far right seemed on National Front would perhaps be the cusp of power. majority of French voters agreed For political analysts, her victory better served by a total with their program. “We won the But the populist fervor that swept strengthened her personal brand transformation, including a new battle of ideas,” Maréchal-Le Pen Britain and the United States never and her chances of remaining party name and a leader from outside the said in April. reached the same pitch in France, leader. The National Front’s total Le Pen family. and the National Front fell into number of parliamentary seats also But election results would suggest rose from two to eight — an Her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, otherwise. disarray when Emmanuel Macron minced no words Tuesday when he crushed Marine Le Pen in May’s expansion but far short of what the party had expected. insisted that his daughter should Marine Le Pen, in her victory presidential election. Now, the party step down as party leader following speech, suggested that the National is facing the reality that it will have “The victory of Marine Le Pen is an the disappointing parliamentary Front represented a silent majority minimal representation in important thing for her personal results. “You outlive your usefulness of voters, if not any kind of Parliament. image,” said Jean-Yves Camus, a when you start harming your party significant parliamentary presence. leading expert on the radical right. “If by your policy stances or your While Le Pen had hoped that her “It is scandalous that our party — party might serve as the principal her leadership is contested, she can stubbornness,” the elder Le Pen told say she was very comfortably reporters, having been locked out of which won 7.6 million votes in the opposition to Macron’s majority, the first round of the presidential National Front earned only eight of elected.” a party meeting at National Front headquarters outside Paris. election and 3 million more in the the 577 parliamentary seats, The National Front had approached second round — cannot obtain a according to totals from Sunday’s the presidential election in a The party’s co-founder, now 89, was group at the assembly,” she said second round of voting. The result confident mood, with polls showing expelled from his party in 2015 after Sunday. was particularly stunning given that Le Pen at No. 2 in a crowded field of reiterating, in an interview, his view the party had gotten more than one- aspirants. She had vowed to “de- that the Nazi gas chambers were a A “group” in France’s Parliament third of the votes cast in the final demonize” the party, long “detail of history,” and is nominally requires at least 15 seats. Such round of the presidential election. associated with anti-Semitism and estranged from his daughter. But the groups help set the parliamentary agenda and are entitled to certain There was, however, a silver lining: xenophobia. elder Le Pen retains an honorary title, and the organization he resources, such as extra office a seat for Le Pen herself, a small But during the campaign, she space and larger shares of public but