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If Christine Lagarde enters French politics, the centre might just hold

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“If Christine Lagarde enters French politics, the centre might just hold”

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s fourth-term victory last month was a change in the global political weather that has lifted the hopes of centrists following a series of setbacks this year. The Halloween trail of riots and destruction across Europe last weekend was just the latest in a succession of generational clashes that shows how high political temperatures are running at this point in history. Why, then, does the return to politics of European Central Bank president…

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