Welcome to the Euro Intelligence Podcast. I'm Wolfgang Munchau and with me, Zuzana Muncheng and Jack Smith.

This morning we would like to talk about France, French politics. Again, France has a new Prime Minister, Francois Beirou, France has a new government in place and Mr. Beru has given his first speech in the National Assembly.

Zosanna, what did he say?

And how did it go down?

Yeah, I was listening to his speech.

It was one and a half hours.

And it felt like really a travel in time. His way of talking was very old school,

really giving the general orientation of what he considers the direction it should be,

but without actually giving any details.

It has nothing to do with what we were used to from Gabriel Latal,

who really just hammered out all the policies that he wanted to implement

and put on the agenda in record time.

Now, Baru, he was very calm.

He was, despite all the who's and the booze and in the audience,

he was just calm and just plowing through,

but without giving the opposition anything

that they would just recognize themselves in.

It was very general.

I mean, before, they had very detailed conversations with the finance minister, the

socialist, the green, and the communist.

They had very detailed conversations about whether or not the left could be convinced

to back the Belarus government.

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