EUROPE - France kicks off a week of World War I commemorations from Sunday November 3, with some 80 leaders from around the globe preparing to fly in for a ceremony marking a century since the guns fell silent. French President Emmanuel Macron is gearing up for a busy week of diplomacy that will see him play host to leaders including US President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. He will also be criss-crossing northern France, visiting the battlefields where hundreds of thousands of men lost their lives in the trenches.
The commemorations will culminate in a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on November 11, attended by dozens of leaders including Trump, Putin and Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, 100 years to the day since the armistice. Macron is set to use his speeches to hammer home warnings of the dangers of nationalism at a time when populists are on the march around Europe and beyond.
In an interview Thursday, he said Europe risked a return to the 1930s because of the spread of a nationalist “leprosy” across the continent. “I am struck by similarities between the times we live in and those of between the two world wars,” he told the Ouest-France newspaper. “In a Europe divided by fears, the return of nationalism, the consequences of economic crisis, one sees almost systematically everything that marked Europe between the end of World War I and the 1929 (economic) crisis.”
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