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Politics‘Very poor communicators’: Macron and government fail to address French people’s ‘genuine concerns’

Unrest in France raises questions about political accountability, police exhaustion and an increasingly confrontational relationship between citizens and the state. Joseph Downing says France must reconsider how the state exercises authority and responds to violent unrest and legitimate social movements, and points to centralised policing, revolutionary traditions and the wider threat of Russian information warfare.

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‘Very poor communicators’: Macron and government fail to address French people’s ‘genuine concerns’
‘Very poor communicators’: Macron and government fail to address French people’s ‘genuine concerns’Politics