Politics in Europe have been in the spotlight as elections in France and the UK show center-leftist victories against a growing conservative surge in much of Europe. What will be the new government in France as a new left-wing coalition beats back the right, but no party holds a majority in parliament? And what new policies might we see in the UK which now has a new prime minister and a new parliament? And what is the significance of these elections as the future of Europe is shifting to the right?

Guests in this edition of Dialogue are Prof. Iain Begg from the London School of Economics and Political Science; John Ross, senior fellow at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies of Renmin University of China；Prof. Joav Toker from the American Graduate School in Paris; and Jeremie Ni, director of Chinform at the Sino-European Cross Culture Training Center.