TIME Magazine Asia | May 22, 2017
THE BATTLE FOR FRANCE IS OVER
When the storm turns out to be less severe than the warnings, there’s always a sigh of relief and maybe a bit of overconfidence after the fact. If fans of the European Union felt better after populist Geert Wilders came up short in the Dutch elections in March, they also took heart from the absence of anti-E.U. firebrands among the leading contenders for this fall’s German elections. Then came May 7. The victory of Emmanuel Macron over Marine Le Pen in France’s presidential elections signaled that “the season of growth of populism has ended,” Antonio Tajani, president of the European Parliament, said on May 8. Not so fast. Europeans will soon remember that elections are never the end of anything they’re a beginning. And whether the issue is unelected Eurocrats’ forcing voters to abide by rules they don’t like or fears that borders are insecure, there are good reasons to doubt that the anti-E.U. fever has broken.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in TIME Magazine Asia May 22, 2017.