HeyJaredJohn Lichfield
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OPINION: Macron must tackle French fuel prices or risk populist oil fire in 2027 (opens the original)
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Eight years ago I stood with the first wave of Gilets Jaunes next to my local supermarket in Calvados. They pointed indignantly to a large totem which advertised diesel fuel at €1.40 a litre. “How can we survive when diesel is €1.40 a litre,” one Yellow Vest asked? “In the big towns, people don’t understand. Here, in the countryside, the car is everything. Work, shopping, the doctor. Everything.” I passed the same totem the other day. Diesel was €2.40 a litre. Fuel totems in supermarket car park
OPINION: France's six million foreigners have good reason to fear 'President Le Pen' (opens the original)
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Everybody should be scared, French or foreign, living in France or living elsewhere. Whether foreign residents of France have something special to fear is a trickier question. Despite her claim to have de-toxified her father’s party, Le Pen launched the autumn phase of her presidential campaign with a slogan – “priorité nationale” – which goes back to the racist origins of her movement. In a speech in her constituency in Hénin-Beaumont in northern France, she said that a Le Pen government would
OPINION: France is in deep trouble over its debt (opens the original)
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The economy barely avoided recession in the first half of the year. The scorching summer shrivelled farming and tourism. The Gulf war has pushed petrol and diesel prices to unknown levels and rising (thank you Donald Trump). France’s €3,000bn debt is under concerted attack by hedge funds on the bond markets. Hopes of reducing the 5.1 percent of GDP budget deficit this year have been abandoned. Into this cauldron by the end of this week the government must produce a draft budget for 2027. Three g
OPINION: In the French far right, the rift widens between Le Pen and Bardella (opens the original)
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Sometimes I get things right. Or nearly right. I suggested last week that all was not well within Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National (RN), despite her crushing advantage in the presidential opinion polls. I understated the problem. Relations between Le Pen and her de facto Number Two Jordan Bardella are close to breaking point, according to Libération and other French publications. The RN economic adviser François Durvye was fired last month, Libération reports, because he urged Bardella to
OPINION: Le Pen looks unbeatable, but her own arrogance and laziness may be her undoing (opens the original)
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Who can stop Marine Le Pen from becoming the next President of the Republic? She can. Shadow campaigning in the most dangerous of French elections has been under way for months. The real business starts now. Seven months before the first round on April 18th, the Far Right leader has a crushing lead in the opinion polls – at least 14 percentage points in an Elabe poll on Sunday. If the election was to be held now, the polls suggest that she would defeat any likely opponent in the two-candidate se
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