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France pushes EU’s omnicrisis to breaking point

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Bleak finances, surging far-right support and a key vote that could topple Prime Minister François Bayrou: long-simmering instability in the No. 2 euro zone economy may boil over. In this week’s Viewsroom, Breakingviews columnists debate what it means for the bloc’s future. Visit the Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement for information on our privacy and data protection practices. You may also visit megaphone.fm/adchoices to opt-out of targeted advertising.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:08.2

This clarification for me, it is urgent.

0:13.0

And there is a place for this clarification.

0:15.9

An institution, it's the parliament.

0:19.3

In a debate ordained, followed by a vote, and not not in the parliament. In a debate ordone,

0:21.5

followed by the vote,

0:23.5

and not not in the

0:24.9

disordre of the affrontment of rues and

0:27.3

of the injure.

0:29.1

That was French Prime Minister

0:30.8

Francois Bairu speaking on August 25th,

0:35.1

saying he was seeking a clarification,

0:37.4

an urgent clarification. and he was hoping

0:39.9

to get that through debate, followed by a vote. He did not want a confrontation on the streets.

0:48.0

So that's what we're here to talk about. France's simmering political crisis, which is threatening

0:53.6

to boil over once again,

0:56.0

with potentially significant consequences for the Eurozone's second largest economy and its debt.

1:02.9

Uncertainty is nothing new in France. Emmanuel Macron's government has faced a relentless

1:08.1

charge from Marine Le Pen and her far-right National Rally Party.

1:13.5

The question now looming over French politics is who will succeed Macron after 2027.

1:21.0

That's right. We're going to get another key milestone in the longest-running saga on the continent,

1:27.0

which is what will happen in French

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