Battling two crises, France's Macron faces defining moment

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Simultaneously battling the twin crises of the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic and a resurgence in Islamist attacks, French President ...

The current period is the toughest for Macron since he came to power, said Bruno Cautres, a political researcher for the Paris-based Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po .

"The virus is circulating in France with a speed that even the most pessimistic forecasts did not anticipate," the French leader said in an address to the nation announcing the new lockdown, prompting an outcry from medics who had indeed warned of such a scenario.

Since then however, attempts to move forward on an ambitious agenda of green policies, economic change, and the overhaul of France's pension system have been stymied by external factors.

 

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