Donald Trump’s real visit? The situation in Gaza? The stars of American television expelled under the pressure of the White House? No. The cover of the British daily newspaper The Guardian is dedicated to France.
On the side of the popular Dailymail newspaper we take ourselves in the disturbances and morning arrests. “Anti-Macron Fury grabs France once again with almost a million people ready to go to the streets and the protesters who are already in conflict with the police during the ‘day of anger'”, attacks a long article of everyday life that gives pride to the photos of the reliefers.
On the side of the Netherlands, it is above all the economic situation of the country that cares.
“Is France the new Greece?” Asks the columnist Pierre de Waard in a editorial of Volksrant, Remembering how Greece almost sank after compensating its deficit figures (15.7%instead of … 3.7%), which had caused an unprecedented outbreak of the country’s loan rates to 33%.
“But France is not Greece, he says. It is not on the outskirts of Europe. It is the axis and the second economy in the euro zone. In addition, the budget deficit amounts to 5.8% of GDP, and not at 15%. In addition, the French debt is so colossal (3,300 euros) that speculators doubt in the market.
In other words, France would be “too big too” (too big to fall). Above all, he continues: “France is the father of the euro zone, the European unit and the European currency are French ideas.”
The country “is content to approve the bill in Berlin. French greatness will be paid to save Europe,” he concludes.
In other words, if France continues in its path of inconsistency, Europe will eventually resolve the note.
“French game with fire”
His colleague on Telegraaf is less tender.
According to him, the Netherlands (and the other EU countries) are “trapped in a monetary union” with France that “behaves like a spoiled bank that knows that it cannot go bankrupt.”
Through the RIN, where the budget rigor acts as a national tradition, it is also a French denial that is indicated, and its possible consequences for the rest of the European Union.
“Obviously, the French did not want to hear what the difficult financial situation of their country meant,” said an editorial of the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, for whom the “common economic sense” would require “reacting through expenses reductions, tax reform and pension reform.”
“To affirm that the euro zone faces its next important crisis with the fiscal problem of France is simply not serious,” observes the Bavarian newspaper, for whom, unlike Greece from the years 2010, France “has a solid industrial base, a current balanced balance and is not at the edge of the collapse.” But “it would be equally incorrect minimizing the situation,” it is said.
“A country of this size cannot be caught as Greece or Portugal at that time,” said the same publishing house, believing that Europe “cannot afford to have a second weak economy.”
“Macron lives as a king”
And the problem seems insoluble because “there is no majority within parliaments to adopt programs of austerity and budget cuts,” says an analysis of the WirtSchaftswoche weekly economic, for which “this is what makes the situation so dangerous and so desperate, and the markets are correct to be nervous.”
“The French must save money, but … Macron lives as a king!”, He says the title of an article on the German Tabloides Bild, referring to the expenses of Elysée that had been set by a report by the Court of Auditors in 2024.
“Many French ask themselves: why should I work longer or give up privileges if the president and his luxury government show the money of taxpayers through the windows? Because the fact is that the palace is considered a place of waste and this for years,” he said.
Italy fears
On the other side of the Alps, in Italy, we ask for caution. “Given recurring political tensions between the Italian government and the French executive, some in Italy could organize such an event with silent satisfaction”, while France now takes as expensive as Italy in the debt market, observes a recent article in the Italian newspaper Corriere della, for whom he testifies the “credibility” of the neighboring transalpino that, in recent years, “had a stable government.” Prudent Budget. “”
“If Paris really became the epicenter of a new crisis in the sovereign debt in Europe, Italy would be the first to be exposed to infection,” they fear, because investors “would ask where similar risks are hidden today in Europe.” In addition, France is a market that Italy “cannot afford to lose or see the leave”, while the United States and China face world trade. “Therefore, the transalpine market is fundamental and a financial crisis would attack it as a very dangerous virus,” said the Italian newspaper.
The concern is shared in the southern slope of the Pyrenees, where the responsibility of the political forces is indicated. “Most of the matches agree that the situation is serious, but none manages to find a solution to the problem,” said an editorial published by the Spanish newspaper El Pais, for whom “the image that refers to Macron France is that of helplessness and fails.”
Each political force “seems to be camp in its positions and is not organized in any negotiation, especially because it would imply concessions.” “The show offered by Macron France is that of a tightrope walker that must walk with its proposal in a thread suspended in the air while, then the other parts roar to make it fall,” analyzes this same editorial.
Source: BFM TV
