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Jeremy Cliffe is a Contributing Writer. Between 2019 and 2023 he was International Editor and Writer at Large at the New Statesman. This followed an eight-year career at The Economist during which he served as Bagehot and Charlemagne columnist, and bureau chief in Brussels and Berlin.
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