[…] The country that had invented the wide-open space of the market on the sea as well as on land; the country that had ceaselessly pushed the European Union to be nothing but a huge shop; this very country, facing the sudden arrival of thousands of refugees, decided on impulse to stop playing the game of globalization. In search of an empire that had long since vanished, it is trying to pry itself away from Europe (at the price of increasingly inextricable difficulties).
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LATOUR, Bruno, 2018. Down to earth: politics in the new climatic regime. Cambridge, UK Medford, MA, USA: Polity. ProQuest Ebook Central. ISBN 978-1-5095-3056-4. page 
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