I will be honest in that I probably only know the basics of French politics, if that. As you touched upon, the whole President, unelected prime minister in particular.
I guess the main point of my post is that the UK is not alone (particularly in Europe), with struggling debt and Politicians having to make tough decisions.
As I have mentioned before (this is not trying to bring up our recent what if’s ), I believe there is a lot of discontent across Europe and we as a whole should be wary of the increase in support for Far Right parties but I suppose I could extend that to Far Left also.
I do not know if there is any Irony/Karma/or just he is a man that makes tough decisions but it was interesting to see that it was Barnier, who has forced these reforms through, it also highlights that France has massive debts….
I posted this in the UK Politics thread as a kind of distraction from the negativity about UK politics. It has since been moved here, but it is my fault . If some one can move it to the EU thread it would be appreciated.
There are no far left parties with mass support in any of the major countries. In France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands extreme right wing parties are either in government or close to achieving power.
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I was referring to the comment you linked to. In which it refers to Euro scepticism. The Far left are not massive fans of the EU either. I wasn’t referring to political parties.
That is a view rather divorced from reality as it ignores how much more popular far-right Eurosceptic parties are compared to far-left Eurosceptic parties.
Im not disputing that. So what happened in France tonight?
The Centre parties are facing challenges from the far left and right. It took a coalition of Far Left wing parties to keep Le Pen out of power.
The far left have the most seats, the far right 2nd most. So how popular are the far left….
The centre is losing votes to the far left, which is allowing the far right to gain, so I stand by my point. The Far left is just as much a threat to the EU than the Far right, I’m not comparing them policy wise.
Exactly, they can’t stay united, don’t want to leave the EU and aren’t really united in what they actually want from the EU. Most of it are standard left wing positions anyway, nothing unheard of for the EU. If anything an ongoing paralysis of France would be a problem for the EU.
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Disinformation and rabble rousing on both sides. I hope that calmer heads prevail and that our esteemed friend @Iftikhar is safe and sound.
My read, based on fairly limited knowledge, is that what holds that coalition together is Macron. It isn’t that they are just not really united what they actually want from the EU, but not really united on what they want for just about anything else. Macron set Barnier up to fail (probably not deliberately), but now that Barnier’s government has been tossed, the unifying energy is gone and the fundamental differences are relevant.
In the normal course, it would be time for another election to take instruction from the electorate, but with one so recently, that seems both unlikely and prone to play into LePen’s hands. Could Macron possibly just try the Barnier experiment again with someone else?
I was responding to the supposed ‘threat for the EU’ from the French Left.
French politics is completely fucked imo, but tbf that’s en vogue worldwide atm.
I think the analysis I’ve read suggests that she’s doing this because she wants to force early elections since her court case could mean she would be ineligible to run for elected office.
The article in my link was actually published 8 days ago, prior to Barnier’s government falling. I’m not sure if that makes it more or less relevant.
), I believe there is a lot of discontent across Europe and we as a whole should be wary of the increase in support for Far Right parties but I suppose I could extend that to Far Left also.
, since it’s only the Modi Junta that has started a cyber war against Bangladesh.