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May 2021
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Continental Drift - European Politics Sp...

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As polling gets under way in local and regional elections across the U.K., we take the opportunity to focus on politics across the Channel.

Alex Clarkson, lecturer in German and European Studies at King's College London tells Bloomberg Westminster's Caroline Hepker and Roger Hearing it has been hard for Germans to find a replacement for chancellor Angela Merkel, and the Greens are on the rise.

Philippe Marlière, director of European & International Social & Political Studies at University College London, joins to discuss the challenge in France to Emmanuel Macron from the far-right Marine Le Pen in next April's presidential elections.

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