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The Daily

Part 2: The French Rebellion

The Daily

The New York Times

News, Daily News

4.3107.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

President Emmanuel Macron of France had been viewed as the next leader of a liberal Europe. But when the Yellow Vest movement swept the country, protesters took to the streets, rejecting him as elitist and questioning the vision of Europe that he stood for. In Part 2 of our series, we traveled to a city in northern France to hear from some of these protesters. Guest Host: Katrin Bennhold, the Berlin bureau chief for The New York Times, and Clare Toeniskoetter and Lynsea Garrison, producers for “The Daily,” met with Yellow Vest demonstrators in Reims. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading:For some followers of the Yellow Vest movement, Europe embodies everything they have come to hate: shuttered factories, stagnating wages and a young banker-turned-president in favor of deeper integration.In elections last month for the European Parliament, the far-right leader Marine Le Pen won in the rural, depressed and deindustrialized areas of northern, south-central and eastern France that gave rise to the Yellow Vest revolt.

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So we first got on the train to France.

0:06.0

Let me take this for a person right here.

0:08.0

Wow.

0:09.0

France is one of the founding members of the European Union.

0:12.0

It had been at war with Germany on and off for centuries,

0:15.0

so it was also very invested in the idea of a United Europe.

0:19.0

But recently, France has seen a lot of social unrest, the yellow vest.

0:24.0

They've been out in the streets protesting on roundabouts

0:27.0

and in the center of Paris against this young dynamic new president, Emmanuel Macron.

0:33.0

Who just a couple of years ago, a lot of people in Europe saw

0:36.0

as the next leader of a liberal Europe.

0:39.0

And now, there's this really angry movement that is rejecting him

0:43.0

and everything he stands for.

0:46.0

As a leader, as a democratic even, and somehow, it's not French.

0:50.0

Not serving the interest of ordinary French people.

0:56.0

So by questioning Macron, this movement is really also questioning Europe.

1:27.0

Alright.

1:29.0

Maybe we should change our tune.

1:32.0

Oh, my gosh.

1:33.0

Oh, my god, this is it.

1:43.0

Yes, we did.

1:44.0

Woo!

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