No rapprochement with voters for Macron, just the sound of pots and pans
The French president is throwing everything at the wall to avoid becoming a lame duck.
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The French president is throwing everything at the wall to avoid becoming a lame duck.
When set against the bombast of a tyrant and the turbulence across the Channel, the grandeur and dignity of the Coronation can’t be faulted.
Macron will be there. Uneasy, some might say, lies the head of state of a land that lacks a throne.
Only in the big cities does politics translate into activism. Locals in Brittany are too busy playing boules, writes Walter in this week’s letter.
Make no mistake, we may rely on Xi Jinping to reap whatever benefits might accrue from this new partnership.
If so, President Macron could be transformed from lame duck to strutting French cock.
Macron was betting that the sages would declare his reforms to be legal, and they did not disappoint.
France’s bid for better commercial and diplomatic relations with Beijing exposes the fault-line in European security ahead of the US election.
France’s Constitutional Council has vindicated Macron in technical terms. But his battle with the unions is set to continue unabated.
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