Facebook Twitter Pinterest A pension reform protester is confronted by police near the Gare du Nord in Paris. The row over pension reform is a microcosm of the visionary but politically impractical side of Macronism. The almost complete absence of private pensions in France means that any state pension reform worries the whole electorate. Others complain that he has taken his eye off domestic policy since the European elections last spring. The cocksure Macron of 2017-8, the chastened, shirt-sleeved Macron of 2019 or the downbeat Macron of last Tuesday, the “liberal strongman” wearied by democracy?

Source: The Guardian January 05, 2020 08:26 UTC