{"id":146477,"date":"2025-09-19T01:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/146477\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T01:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:29:06","slug":"why-france-is-at-risk-of-becoming-the-new-sick-man-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/146477\/","title":{"rendered":"Why France is at risk of becoming the new sick man of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">What is happening in France now is the conjuncture of several crises at once: political, economic, and social \u2013 and that is what makes the moment feel so significant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the words of pollster Jerome Fourquet last week, &#8220;It is like an incomprehensible play being acted out in front of an empty theatre.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Voters are told that debt is a matter of national life or death, but many either don&#8217;t believe it, or can&#8217;t see why they should be the ones to pay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Presiding over it all is a man who came to power in 2017 vested with hope, and promising to bridge the gap between left and right, business and labour, growth and social justice, Euro-sceptics and Euro-enthusiasts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following this latest debacle, forthright French commentator Nicolas Baverez drew a devastating conclusion in Le Figaro: &#8220;Emmanuel Macron is the real target of the people&#8217;s defiance, and he bears entire responsibility for this shipwreck. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Like all demagogues, he has transformed our country into a field of ruins.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is happening in France now is the conjuncture of several crises at once: political, economic, and social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-146477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}