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‘Weak, unpopular’ Macron using military means to quell protests: Professor Saturday, 01 July 2023 11:19 AM  [ Last Update: Saturday, 01 July 2023 11:19 AM ] By Somayeh Khalili The government of Emmanuel Macron in France is both “weak and terribly unpopular” and believes that resorting to suppressive mechanisms and even the military is “the only way” to quell popular protests sweeping the country, according to a political observer. In an interview with the Press TV website,...

On Macron's proposals for EU reform. It is almost as if the revolutionaries in 1789, instead of setting up a National Assembly enabling all privileges to be abolished immediately and a new fiscal system to be set up, had only announced that it would be a good idea to pause to reflect on the setting up of a commission to consider a long-term plan to save the Ancien Régime. It is the difference between doing something and empty rhetoric. Thomas Piketty's Blog at Le MondeThe Transferunion...

In this essay, I offer a detailed textual analysis of the speech which French President Emmanuel Macron delivered before the Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C. on 25 April 2018, in line with the kind of textual analysis which I performed on major political documents signed by heroic East European freedom fighters in 2007 and 2009, which were in fact authored by US intelligence operatives.... Russia Insider The CIA Got Macron Elected - It Looks Like They Wrote His Big US Speech...

Getting real about motives.Sykes-Picot.For France and the UK, making their countries great means recapture some of their colonial power.Macron setting himself up as the new DeGaulle? "A la gloire de la patrie." Sputnik InternationalLavrov Calls French President Stance on Syria ‘Colonial’

At the centre of Macron’s policy is an attempt to re-assert French influence in its former colonial sphere in Syria, North Africa, and the Sahel. “Two great zones are the focus of our efforts in the struggle against terror: Syria and Iraq on the one hand, and Libya and the Sahel on the other,” he said. He announced that he would “soon” travel to Ouagadougou, the capital of the former French colony of Burkina Faso, which has played a significant role in the French war in neighbouring Mali....

Jörg Bibow | June 2, 2017 The Economist‘s analysis of Germany’s job market miracle of the past ten years offered in “What the German economic model can teach Emmanuel Macron” is more balanced than the usual accounts one hears in Germany itself. Germans are in love with the idea that structural reform of their labor market and persistent budgetary austerity were solely responsible for the German economy’s superior performance...