FRANCE 24 English ‘Necessary evil at key times: Most French people don’t like 49.3, but France needs a budget’

William Hilderbrandt is pleased to welcome Professor Paul Smith, Head of Modern Languages at the University of Nottingham. the recent drama in the  is dissected with calm precision. While the failure of motions of no confidence against the government in the French National Assembly was widely anticipated, Professor Smith sheds light on deeper tensions lurking inside French politics, not just between left and right, but between democratic ideals and procedural necessity.
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