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1 week ago

PODCAST: France presses the self-destruct button and Paris prepares for flood of the century

France faces intense political instability with rapid government changes and growing debate over whether the Fifth Republic remains fit for purpose.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

France's political upheaval isn't temporary - it's a profound constitutional crisis | Pierre Purseigle

Few expect Macron to return from Egypt with a solution to the deepening domestic political crisis he presides over, however. Fewer still have enough trust in a government so subservient to Macron that it can survive the forthcoming deliberations of the National Assembly. Because this is no conventional parliamentary crisis, but a crise de regime. Inspired by Charles de Gaulle's vision of executive pre-eminence vested in a quasi-monarchic presidential ascendancy,
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France news
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

The birth of France's Fifth Republic archive, October 1958

The Fifth Republic concentrates executive power in a directly elected president while retaining parliamentary elements and expanding emergency and dissolution powers at parliamentary expense.
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