| Is Paris Burning? French President Emmanuel Macron, whose popularity ratings (at around 18 percent) are well below Trump's, exited Paris yesterday for the Middle East, even as some neighborhoods of major French cities were still smoking. Supposedly, he is on a mission to bring down fuel prices. Bonne chance to that. The French mess is best understood in three dimensions that are all connected''the social, the economic, and the political. Socially, the protests, which caught the government by surprise in their ferocity, are mainly symptoms. The most severe riots since the famous events of 1968 began with high school students, who are ostensibly fed up with tattered schools and inadequate materials. But what they are really despairing about is the absence of life chances and hope. |
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At prospect.org from The American Prospect
At prospect.org from The American Prospect
