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Guy Millière • December 1, 2018 at 2:00 am
- "The
French say, 'Mr. President, we cannot make ends meet,' and the
President replies, 'we shall create a High Council [for the
climate]'. Can you imagine the disconnect?" -- Laurence
Saillet, spokesman for the center-right party, The Republicans,
November 27, 2018
- The
"yellow jackets" [protestors] now have the support of
77% of the French population. They are demanding Macron's
resignation and an immediate change of government.
- The
movement is now a revolt of millions of people who feel asphyxiated
by "confiscatory" taxation, and who do not want to
"pay indefinitely" for a government that seems
"unable to limit spending". -- Jean-Yves Camus,
political scientist
- European
elections are to be held this Spring, 2019. Polls show that the
National Gathering will be in the lead, far ahead of La République
En Marche! [The Republic on the Move!], the party created by
Macron.
In May, French President Emmanuel
Macron warned that in many suburbs, France has "lost the fight
against drug trafficking". (Getty Images)
On November 11th, French President Emmanuel
Macron commemorated the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I by
inviting seventy heads of state to organize a costly, useless,
grandiloquent "Forum of Peace" that did not lead to anything.
He also invited US President Donald Trump, and then chose to insult
him. In a pompous speech, Macron -- knowing that a few days earlier,
Donald Trump had defined himself as a nationalist committed to
defending America -- invoked "patriotism"; then defined it,
strangely, as "the exact opposite of nationalism"; then
called it "treason".
In addition, shortly before the meeting, Macron had not
only spoken of the "urgency" of building a European army; he
also placed the United States among the "enemies" of Europe.
This was not the first time Macron placed Europe above the interests of
his own country. It was, however, the first time he had placed the
United States on the list of enemies of Europe.
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