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Will the EU weigh in?




Of course not (well, not anything beyond a ceremonial slap on the wrist, perhaps). France is the junior partner in the Franco-German hegemony that is the EU, even if they are a bit of a Fredo of the pair. You have to be a "second tier" subordinate member before the "EU" will say anything, and not really because any freedoms are being restricted necessarily, but because it messes with the tight grip of the German hegemonic power structure. If you were a neoimperialist, would you want your de facto colonies getting "uppity"? Heck no. In dictatorships, you use the baton. In democratic republics, you use the media to shape opinion and "soft" political coercion. You don't want people to know you're an imperialist, after all.




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