School of Politics and International Relations

Dr Françoise Boucek, Transforming the Republic

29 May 2017

Dr Françoise Boucek writes for Chatham House about Emmanuel Macron’s delicate balancing act as he chooses his team to reform France: “Macron will need that mandate. Weaning French citizens off their long-standing dependency on the state means that his government will still have to contend with the street − strikes and mass protests − in the months and years ahead. Even the mildest of reformers in the past from both the left and the right often failed that challenge.”
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