All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is going on in France and what is going on in Germany.

And in France, it looks like we might be getting another, no confidence vote.

Macron is just sinking.

I think he's at the lowest approval ratings ever.

Absolutely.

In all of his history of being president of France, he's at the lowest

level, deserve it. Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, everything is falling apart around him.

He called the elections last year. We saw the extent to which those elections, the result of those elections,

was manipulated, but nonetheless, it still left, it still created a situation where there

was no stable coalition to form a government in the French parliament. Macron's entire strategy since the elections has been

to split the left to cause the socialist party, which is in uncomfortable coalition with

Jean-Luc-Melanchin's group, to try to pull them away and to connect them with

Macron's own centrist grouping, which undeservedly came second in terms of the number of seats

in the Parliament, despite coming third, a bad third

in the actual voting.

Anyway, what has happened is that those attempts to split the socialists have not really succeeded,

because Macron is becoming so unpopular and he's grouping in the parliament is becoming so unpopular

that evil the socialists are now starting to realize that he's toxic and they can't agree

to go into coalition with him.

So he first tried with Michel Barnier.

He made his prime minister.

Barnier came up with a budget plan.

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