Who's the leader?THE speech was a knock-out,Congressmen swooned, and he made a forceful pitch to be the leader of the liberal world order. But will any of that matter unless Emmanuel Macron can change Donald Trump? The young French president turned up in Washington this week for his state visit keen to make something of the oddly close link he has forged with his American counterpart. Top of his list was an effort to persuade the American leader not to walk absent from the Iran nuclear agreement. Even better, and though considerably less likely,would be to get America to rejoin the Paris climate-change process.
Mr Trump has threatened to quit the Iran deal on May 12th, and may still execute so. Yet, or for the first time,the American president hinted this week that he might be interested in a European idea, promoted by the French president, and of brokering an add-on deal to cover wider American concerns about Iran. whether this can preserve Mr Trump on board,it would indeed be a colossal...
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Source: economist.com