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French President Emmanuel Macron
WORKER-BASHING French President Emmanuel Macron did a political somersault today, attacking the European Union for failing to protect the less well off as it pushes its neoliberal agenda.
His scarcely credible change of heart followed a humiliating national opinion poll signalling that his Republique En Marche party is running second in voting intentions in the run-up to next May’s elections to the European Parliament behind the Rassemblement National of fascist leader Marine Le Pen.
Before today’s outburst, Mr Macron’s stance in recent months has been to frame the EU elections as a battle between anti-immigrant nationalists and pro-EU “progressives.”
“We need to hear the fear and anger. There’s anger against a Europe that has become too ultra-liberal,” the president, who has been a major advocate of this pro-corporate policy, told France’s Europe 1 radio.
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
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