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Why Doesn’t Steve Bannon Matter in Europe?

The former Trump strategist has spent the past year trying to bolster far-right parties on the Continent—with little to show for it.
Source: Eric Vidal / Reuters

“I think you do a very dirty job in Europe,” Bernard-Henri Lévy, the French philosopher and author, told Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, during their debate yesterday at the Athens Democracy Forum. “All these movements which you are trying to help, they are not so happy with it.”

The debate, moderated by the journalist Roger Cohen, is among Bannon has made across Europe over the past year in his quest to create a movement aimed at supporting nationalist, anti-establishment parties ahead of

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