POLITICS● ELEVATED1h ago · Oct 18, 2026, 2:00 PM
As France burns, Macron looks like a man who has lost control
The Independent World · western europe
The French national debt is too big, its economy too sluggish and its parliament and president jointly unable to get state spending down to sustainable levels - the mirror image of the complaint of the protesters, who want more spending on subsidies and schools. And so it’s in gridlock
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