This is Business Daily. I'm Rob Young in France.

As Brexit approaches our week-long dashed across Europe continues,

the French president has a grand plan to transform the European Union.

Politicians are worried about rising anti-EU sentiment.

Nationalism is war.

As Francois Mitterrand said, nationalism is war. And this is very dangerous.

But with protests across France, is President Macron losing credibility as he fails to sell his domestic economic reforms?

It's a country which needs to be reformed because we hadn't had any reform since many decades now and we are paying

the price. I know it's unpopular, but I think Macron should hold it tight. That's all in Business Daily

from the BBC. Welcome to Paris. I'm in the centre of the city, just off the famous Chanceselises

near the iconic arc to triumphs. There's a bit of building work in the street below the city, just off the famous chansalise, near the iconic arc to triumph. There's a bit of

building work in the street below, but it's a bright chilly day, definitely coat and scarf weather,

I'd say. Now, all this week we're examining the health of the European Union as the bloc prepares

to lose the UK. As a member, yesterday we heard from Germany. Today, this country rocked by recent protests against President Macron's economic reforms. We'll hear why that could lead to the French president struggling with his grand project to reform the European Union. Politicians here do not see Brexit in itself as a big threat to the EU but are worried about rising nationalism in many countries.

President Emmanuel Macron has

said Europe is fractured and

he's got a plan to fix it. He wants a

multi-speed Europe with Germany and

France at its core, with other nations

integrating if they want. But whether

he can steer this continent's development

depends in part on what

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