Macron beats Le Pen in French presidential election – POLITICO

In this special issue, we analyze the outcome of the French presidential election and its impact on France and Europe.

The program highlights an election night discussion with members of our French electoral team, streamed live on Twitter and moderated by POLITICO’s Andrew Gray.

Political reporter Clea Calcutt gives us the big picture, Elisa Braün reports on Emmanuel Macron’s victory rally in front of the Eiffel Tower and Giorgio Leali brings us reactions from the Le Pen camp. Chief Europe Correspondent Matt Karnitschnig comes to us from Berlin to discuss the effects on the EU and the consider transatlantic relations.

You can find all of our French election coverage here, and if you prefer your French politics in Frenchour daily playbook Paris is available here.