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Nicholas Sarkozy’s infamous beachside tête-à-tête in October 2010 with Angela Merkel at the French seaside resort of Deauville remains the stuff of nightmares for many in Ireland. During that meeting, the then leaders of the Franco-German axis of European politics…

The most incongruous image emanating from Europe this summer, as it was experiencing unrelenting heatwaves, was a video on social media of tourists in Athens hanging out by the pool as huge smoke plumes from out-of-control wildfires gathered overhead. It…