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The Eurointelligence Podcast

Wolfgang Munchau

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🗓️ 19 March 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In this episode our team is talking about France and the Netherlands as their governments is challenged by old and new rivals.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Eurointelligence podcast and Wolfgang Munchau and with me are Zuzane Monsheng and Jake Smith.
0:06.4	Today we would like to talk about France and the Netherlands.
0:10.3	Emmanuel Macron has triggered Article 49.3 of the French constitution pushed through his pension reform package.
0:17.7	Zazana, how should we think about this and what do you think is going to happen in France now?
0:22.3	From the UK perspective, we've all seen images and videos on the social media of social unrest,
0:28.5	of burning bins and scenes that looked like taking from a movie of the French Revolution.
0:34.6	But wishful thinking.
0:36.2	It's wishful thinking.
0:37.1	But in what actually happened is much less dramatic. venture revolution. But it's wishful thinking. It's wishful thinking.
0:43.7	But in what actually happened is much less dramatic and how it will develop that will be subject to a dynamic has yet to be bold.
0:47.0	So just to take back what happened and why we are where we are.
0:51.4	So the article 49.3 allows the government to push through bills that are budget
0:58.3	related to the social security budget related without the vote in the assembly. So the government
1:06.5	earlier on did actually attach the pension reform as part of the budget. You can dispute
1:12.2	how sensible that is, because it's not really a budget item like for one year, but it has
1:17.4	long-term consequences. But that's something for the Constitutional Council later to decide
1:22.2	upon. The idea from the Prime Minister was to get the vote in the assembly as showed by the
1:29.8	Republicans, their 61 rupees, and together with the majority, they would have been able
1:37.0	to pass it.
1:38.2	In the initial phase, Eric Kotti, the leader of the party, made some deals with Elizabeth
1:43.8	Bourne and they found a compromise for the party to back it.
1:48.6	But the party couldn't unite behind his position for various reasons.
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