The country, Emmanuel Macron repeated it in Brussels,
“cannot be stopped”
.
But when a car is bogged down, the big swerves of the steering wheel in one direction or the other and the brutal accelerator kicks only allow you to sink a little deeper.
Only very small, slow, patient and repeated movements give hope, eventually, of getting out of the rut.
The Head of State and his Prime Minister are there.
The policy of small steps is now imposed on them.
Both so as not to have to give up on their pension reform - that remains their first and main objective;
and to be able to continue their action in the weeks and months to come.
So, first,
“lower the tension”
, as Élisabeth Borne confides.
Admittedly, the presidential interview on Wednesday, far from favoring appeasement, revived anger and annoyance, but the outbursts of Thursday evening, from the fire at the door of the town hall of Bordeaux to the violence against the forces of the order…
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