An endemic mutual distrust, here is the "French evil" par excellence, to use the title of the premonitory book by Alain Peyrefitte published in 1977 - the year of birth of Emmanuel Macron - and which was sold to more than 1 million copies.
The situation, alas, has only worsened since then, with this frightening paradox of an omnipresent State to compensate for the inability of the French to get along with each other, and at the same time a fierce and permanent contestation of the public action.
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Luc Rouban: “The institutions of the Fifth Republic are running empty”
"Why do
the French remain the champions of political distrust?"
asks
Luc Rouban, researcher at Cevipof, the political research center at Sciences Po.
no less an original answer and off the beaten track.
While the rise of communitarianism and the dangers of separatism take center stage, the author points to another much more serious risk in his eyes: the total absence, for almost half of the population…
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