The ‘yellow vests’ movement has put important social issues at the centre of the political debate on February 2, 2019At the end of November 2018, a 42-year-old nursing assistant from Val d’Oise (in the region of Paris) judged French President Emmanuel Macron “completely out of touch with the reality”. “The people on the street are getting up every morning to go to work; they are not slackers living off hand-outs; they pay their taxes”. […]
Yellow vests movement or the forced return of French leaders towards a politics with a human face on January 10, 2019At the end of June 2017, in a disused station, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, inaugurated what was somewhat pompously termed a ‘start-up incubator’. Station F was aimed to promote French hi-tech initiatives. Macron’s choice of words on the occasion were a little clumsy: “A railway station is a place where we meet successful people, […]