One of the biggest problems Emmanuel Macron faced when he became President for the first time back in 2017 was the matter of his political identity. He himself said that he was neither right nor left, but the French people were only prepared to swallow that for as long as it took for him to face his first crisis – in this case, the gilets-jaunes.
Tricky road ahead for Michel Barnier, France’s new Prime Minister
Barnier faces an uphill battle to command cross-party support in France’s bitterly divided hung parliament.Â