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New French prime minister Michel Barnier delivers a speech during the handover ceremony, September 5, 2024 in Paris
THE French far right vetoed President Emmanuel Macron’s first choice to be the country’s new prime minister, it emerged today.
The new prime minister, Michel Barnier, pledged to work with “all those in good faith” towards more respect and unity in the politically divided nation.
In his first speech after taking office, Mr Barnier said: “The French today need and expressed their need for respect, unity and appeasement.”
From Reform UK to Trump, Orban and beyond, the far right is organised across borders and growing. Waiting for it to collapse is a fatal error – building an international, locally rooted left alternative is now an urgent necessity., argues ROGER McKENZIE
DENNIS BROE gives an update on the last week of anti-austerity protests against the Macron regime, which has seen the supposedly more right-leaning Gilets Jaunes join with the unions and the left
The desperate French president keeps running up the same political cul-de-sac. DENNIS BROE offers an explanation
