{"id":166980,"date":"2025-09-19T05:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/166980\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T05:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:17:07","slug":"why-france-is-at-risk-of-becoming-the-new-sick-man-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/166980\/","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":166981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-166980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}