Wednesday, 23 January 2019

Can Emmanuel Macron’s ‘great national debate’ save his presidency? | Guillaume Liegey

Talk of tax cuts and curbs to immigration will only go so far – the gilets jaunes protesters need to be listened to now

Earlier this month, in an open letter to French citizens, President Emmanuel Macron suggested that introducing immigration quotas might help address the gilets jaunes crisis. This predictably made many on the left cringe. It also brought to mind a Hillary Clinton interview in the Guardian last year, in which she gave her views on the root cause of rightwing populism. “I think Europe needs to get a handle on migration because that is what lit the flame,” she said. Clinton argued that populists should be fought on their own ground and that liberal parties should develop a tougher line on immigration.

With Europe just months away from an EU parliamentary election, the urgent task is to burst the bubbles we live in

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