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BONUS! 107: On Macron and the World Cup Final with Rym Momtaz


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I wasn’t going to publish another episode this year but then the World Cup Final happened, and President Macron went cringe and inspired a whole new conversation I simply had to have before the new year. There’s no better person to discuss Macron with than Rym Momtaz, the former France Correspondent for Politico who spent years reporting on the Macron administration and currently a consulting research fellow on European Foreign Policy and Security with the IISS. We dig into what happened, whether sports are necessarily political, and what challenges lays ahead for the French president in the coming year.

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Rym Momtaz 

Macron's Cringe Behavior at the World Cup Final

Rym’s work for Politico

IISS organization 


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