Buba
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Why? No.5 is doing reasonably well ...
EU 🇫🇷 French Republic Discussion Megathread
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French version of EDSA ?
49ersfootball
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Who's going to be the Corazon Aquino of France ? 🤔
Arlos
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It was done under the premise that Statesman would use it in a reasonable and measured way, which is why I said it was technically legal, but not to be used however you want whenever you meet opposition, now you can argue that he is in right in regards to the law and thus everything is fine, but I believe when it come to presidential and states decision making institution matters, which are always in a bit of a gray area in regard to how much they answers to the law, the spirit of the law is just as important as the letter of the law, if not more.
So, if politician want to play the "letter of the law" game about the powers given to them when they barely follow them half the time, then I have little problem treating the situation as such and advocating to take away a lot of said powers.
If you want to play the democracy game you have to at least give the image you are.
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French President Emmanuel Macron welcoming Finland to NATO; hoping that Sweden becomes the 32nd member of NATO soon!
49ersfootball
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Statement from French President Emmanuel Macron on former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden serving as Special Envoy to ChristChurch Call
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Highlights of the Citizens' Convention
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DarthOne
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Riiight. And this will in no way be used to crush, spy on or otherwise harm any ideology or political group that might replace and fix the establishment’s fuck up.
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49ersfootball
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Big question is what is the French Armed Forces planning on doing in response to these massive protests ?
Join them?
Sergeant Foley
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Insta-block BABY.
Sergeant Foley
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I also have full strong confidence in Macron turning things around!
Not really. If those companies die...the assets are still there.
DarthOne
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Not exactly what I mean. What I’m saying is that the ‘experts’ and politician who say that are the ones who are connected to said companies and are more concerned with themselves. If one company failed, their resources would just get snatched up by the others. But the damage would still be great while things got shuffled around.
DarthOne
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Two companies control our planet
"It's bad for the economy" now takes on a completely different meaning
French protesters armed with flares take over Blackrock's head office in Paris
French protesters armed with flares take over Paris office
Hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets of France Thursday for the 11th day of nationwide resistance to a government proposal to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.www.express.co.uk
Hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets of France Thursday for the 11th day of nationwide resistance to a government proposal to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.
French railway workers invaded US financial company BlackRock in Paris on Thursday over Emmanuel Macron's controversial pension reforms. Violent protests escalated over pension plans that have cornered and weakened French President Emmanuel Macron.
France's highest body on constitutional affairs will be considering the higher retirement age. The Constitutional Council is expected to issue a ruling this month and Macron's opponents hope it will severely limit his proposal.
In many countries, raising the retirement age by two years wouldn't throw the nation into such disarray.
But the French public is overwhelmingly against it and unrelenting demonstrations against it have morphed into wider anger.
Mounds of up to 10,000 tons of trash piled up on the streets of Paris during a weekslong strike by sanitation workers over a plan that would push their retirement age from 57 to 59 — lower than the national age because their jobs are physically harder.
Many governments in the developed world are in similar situations. Population growth is down, people are living longer, medicine is better and benefits cost more.
Democracies' attempts to balance budgets by cutting benefits, particularly in countries with generous plans like France's, put administrations at risk.
Many agree that Macron has made some fundamental missteps.
Fearing he might not get enough votes in parliament to pass the bill, Macron resorted to the "nuclear option" by using a special article of the French constitution allowing the government to force the bill through without a vote.
That prompted outrage across France that further fueled discontent, diminished his popularity, and galvanized his critics' image of him as a monarchical leader.
Macron lost his majority in parliament last year and his government survived two no-confidence votes last month — one by only a razor-thin nine votes — after he angered the nation by ramming the reform through parliament.
Experts say the protests show that Macron was re-elected because of antipathy for far-right contender Marine Le Pen more than enthusiasm for him. And even if the protests die down, the French president will still have sustained a political bloody nose and a permanent stain on his authority.
The pensions law needs a green light from the Constitutional Council on April 14.
The Paris trash collectors' union has called for fresh strikes April 13, with other unions pledging to keep resisting until the controversial law is canceled. Some predict the French public's enthusiasm — and resources — for protests and strikes is dwindling.
Jean-Daniel Levy, deputy director of Harris Interactive polling said: "Going on strike is an expensive affair so you can't do it forever."
And diminished spending power is a real issue, leaving many unable to afford to strike more, he said.
Sergeant Foley
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Threadban TOS 3.f - Calling for violence is against the TOS.
Time to EXTERMINATE these butt ugly protesters ASAP!
At some point, the government and Armed Forces need to aggressively crack down on them right now!
PS: The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris is around the corner because the entire world will be watching the Games next Summer.
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DarthOne
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Nice to see the mask come off all the way at last.
Are you actually calling for the French government to start slaughtering the protestors?