On what is one of Europe s busiest motorways, hundreds of Gallic farmers have parked their tractors. On paper, they are staging a political demonstration. In practice, it looks more like a music festival.
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‘No battle plan survives contact with the enemy,” said Bismarck’s great field marshal Count von Moltke, a piece of wisdom Emmanuel Macron (who’s just given a funeral oration for the late Wolfgang Schäuble in serviceable German) might want to ponder. His brand-new cabinet and brand-new 34-year-old PM, Gabriel Attal, were supposed to bring relief, and a breath of fresh air, to government.