Social unrest ahead of French elections: Protesters 'don't believe politics can achieve anything'
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Annette Young is pleased to welcome Renaud Foucart, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics ECARES at Lancaster University. France's 1.6% minimum-wage increase, in response to the countrywide protests, may offer a temporary reprieve from social unrest, but it does little to resolve the deeper political and institutional crisis confronting the country. According to Foucart, the central problem extends beyond declining purchasing power, fiscal constraints and the limitations of a minority government. It concerns a growing loss of faith in politics itself. “They are in the street because…
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Social unrest ahead of French elections: Protesters 'don't believe politics can achieve anything'
Annette Young is pleased to welcome Renaud Foucart, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics ECARES at Lancaster University. France's 1.6% minimum-wage increase, in response to the countrywide protests, may offer a temporary reprieve from social unrest, but it does...
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