Fairy tales can come true, it has happened to those who are young at heart. That may help explain why a new generation is arising in European politics, if not the surfacing of a comprehensive cult of youth. The 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz is prime minister in Austria, the 39-year-old Juri Ratas is PM of Estonia, the 39-year-old Leo Varadkar is Taoiseach of Ireland, the 43-year-old Alexis Tsipras is PM of Greece, and the 43-year-old Matteo Renzi was PM of Italy, 2017-March 2018. Above all, there is Emmanuel Macron, the 40-year-old President of France. Now that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party did poorly in the September 2017 parliamentary election, getting only 32.9% of the vote, a loss of 8.6%, and that she was only able to form a government in March 2018, the self-confident and ambitious Macron appears as the new leading figure not only in France but laying claim to be the diplomatic and political leader of Europe. During the presidential election campaign he...(Read Full Article)