Sébastien “Lazarus” Lecornu miraculously shakes off the shortest time period of a major minister in fashionable French historical past, solely to outlive not one however two death-defying political feats: weathering consecutive votes of no-confidence. Because the newly rejuvenated prime minister lives to see one other day in France’s ongoing political telenovela, Genie Godula is happy to welcome Dr. Joseph Downing, Senior Lecturer in Worldwide Relations and Politics at Aston College. Dr. Downing masterfully unpacks the seismic return of Lecornu as he rolls again Macron’s marketing campaign centrepiece, his signature pension reform. For now, France’s retirement age and beneficiant pension system, the envy of the world, stay untouchable: staving off an existential reckoning rooted within the nation’s deep cultural contract between citizen and state. But Lecornu should nonetheless steadiness an unimaginable price range, strolling a political tightrope excessive above, with no security internet beneath.
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