Clément Beaune has a deeper understanding of politics on these islands than most French politicians. As a student, he spent his Erasmus year at Trinity College Dublin. He became an EU advisor to then-economy minister Emmanuel Macron a decade ago, was elected to the National Assembly in Paris on the back of his mentor’s rise to the presidency and became his junior minister for European Affairs in 2020. Beaune visited Ireland to prepare the ground for the 2021 global agreement on the taxation of multinationals and took part in the difficult Brexit negotiations to square the circle between the UK’s…

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