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Is Germany Driving France to the Brink?
William Pfaff
Paris, August 27, 2014
-- Shades of France's notorious Third Republic ! The latest French
government has been summarily dismissed after only six painful months.
It was certainly time for a change. President François Hollande's poll
ratings have plumbed new depths at 17 percent, while Prime Minister
Manuel Valls had lost 9 percentage points in one month, down to 36
percent. With his usual indecision, the President told Mr. Valls to go
back and form a new government to carry on the same policies – the third
in the space of one year -- but excluding the trouble-makers who
provoked this crisis.The principal culprit is ex-Economics Minister Arnaud Montebourg, who during the weekend proclaimed unresolvable differences with the president's economic policies and explicitly blamed Germany for France's “descent into hell.”
http://www.williampfaff.com/article.php?storyid=693
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