A state of intermittent anarchy, choreographed by the trade unions, has taken over from any kind of political discourse.
Britain’s monarch and his wife will have no wish to play the part, however vicariously, of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
Fierce nationwide protests are about a lot more than a modest increase in the retirement age.
Viewed from central Brittany, everything that isn’t local is far away and of only passing interest.
The French President is forcing through his highly controversial pensions bill – and the Left is apoplectic.
France’s political leadership would do well to look in the mirror and ask themselves if they and their colleagues really look like France in the 21st century.Â
The two leaders have ushered in a new era in Anglo-French relations at the first bilateral summit in five long years.
Whoever wins the battle of pension reform – the unions or Macron – France will be changed.
France is in open revolt and the gendarmerie are on full alert.
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