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Jack Mintz: EU 'partnership' is not the answer to our U.S. problems

Europe has big problems of its own, while our history with the U.S. shows that even after tariff wars we can get back to open markets

In the past two weeks, my wife and I spent time in Germany and the United Kingdom. Luckily, we didn’t include France on our trip. Friends who were in Paris last week said many tourist sites were closed and violent demonstrations had to be carefully avoided.

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France is a symptom of what is wrong with Europe: paralysis and polarization. Its electorate is shifting to the nationalist right and Marxist-leaning........

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