Assessments

Employees of French telecommunications company SFR take part in a national day of action organized by French unions. Despite their declining membership and fragmentation, French unions still have some potent tools at their disposal.

The French president's ability to pass contentious labor reforms through the National Assembly will set the tone for the rest of his presidency.

France's Macron Gets to Work

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France

Politics

European Disintegration

Emmanuel Macron won this month's French presidential election on a promise to balance state intervention in the French economy and reforms intended to make it more competitive. His electoral platform included a promise to introduce public investment initiatives worth some 50 billion euros (roughly $56 billion) over the next five years, for example, but it also includes proposals to make labor laws more flexible and to cut public sector spending by 60 billion euros.

ASSESSMENTS

France's Macron Gets to Work

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