Jean-Éric Shoettl is an Honorary State Councilor.
The impotence of the public authorities in the face of a strike by SNCF inspectors which seriously disrupted the lives of 200,000 people at Christmas is a reminder of their impotence in other areas (education, security, immigration, etc.) including regulation, because it is essential to civil peace, social cohesion and public order, would require firmness.
In the face of disorder that undermines the community's trust in its state, our leaders communicate instead of act, attempting to compensate for their inaction with protests of compassion, exhortations to dialogue and calls for accountability.
We thus see the Prime Minister congratulating the SNCF unions for contenting themselves with spoiling Christmas, when they filed strike notices for all of the end-of-year celebrations and thus contributed to their "overflow" by a collectivecreated on Facebook.
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The most pathetic thing is that this impotence is not feigned.
At least to…
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