As the country prepares to elect a new President Polls suggest record levels of apathy and disillusion among french voters. A spate of Terror Attacks has sown insecurity and sparked a heated debate about immigration, islam and frances identity. My guest today is pascal bruckner, a writer and Public Intellectual in the grand french tradition. Is france living through an age of decline . Pascal bruckner, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. We are talking with a french president ial election very close. Does france feel ripe for the sort of political shock that weve seen in recent times both in the uk over the brexit vote and in the United States with the victory of donald trump in the president ial election . I hope not, with all my heart i hope we wont face the same electoral results that you had with brexit and that the americans had with trump. So were doing everything to avoid the passage to the far right with Marine Le Pen. But at the present time we have two opposite candidates, jean l
As the country prepares to elect a new President Polls suggest record levels of apathy and disillusion among french voters. A spate of Terror Attacks has sown insecurity and sparked a heated debate about immigration, islam and frances identity. My guest today is pascal bruckner, a writer and Public Intellectual in the grand french tradition. Is france living through an age of decline . Pascal bruckner, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. We are talking with a french president ial election very close. Does france feel ripe for the sort of political shock that weve seen in recent times both in the uk over the brexit vote and in the United States with the victory of donald trump in the president ial election . I hope not, with all my heart i hope we wont face the same electoral results that you had with brexit and that the americans had with trump. So were doing everything to avoid the passage to the far right with Marine Le Pen. But at the present time we have two opposite candidates, jean l
From the perspective of scotland, wales and Northern Ireland. Scotlands first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has been keen to remind theresa may of all of her previous comments on the idea of an early election. All statements that theresa may must surely now be regretting. Well, the Prime Minister says she is not regretting that, she has taken the decision reluctantly, recently, and she says in the national interest. Here, though, is more of Nicola Sturgeons alternative analysis. The question of what kind of country we wa nt the question of what kind of country we want to be is at stake in this election campaign, and whether we wa nt election campaign, and whether we want that to be a country the future of which is steered and directed by a tory party moving ever more to the right, or whether we want the people of scotla nd right, or whether we want the people of scotland to be in charge. This is an opportunity to make scotlands voice heard and make sure we have mps from scotland who will
From the perspective of scotland, wales and Northern Ireland. Scotlands first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has been keen to remind theresa may of all of her previous comments on the idea of an early election. All statements that theresa may must surely now be regretting. Well, the Prime Minister says she is not regretting that, she has taken the decision reluctantly, recently, and she says in the national interest. Here, though, is more of Nicola Sturgeons alternative analysis. The question of what kind of country we wa nt the question of what kind of country we want to be is at stake in this election campaign, and whether we wa nt election campaign, and whether we want that to be a country the future of which is steered and directed by a tory party moving ever more to the right, or whether we want the people of scotla nd right, or whether we want the people of scotland to be in charge. This is an opportunity to make scotlands voice heard and make sure we have mps from scotland who will
As the country prepares to elect a new President Polls suggest record levels of apathy and disillusion among french voters. A spate of Terror Attacks has sown insecurity and sparked a heated debate about immigration, islam and frances identity. My guest today is pascal bruckner, a writer and Public Intellectual in the grand french tradition. Is france living through an age of decline . Pascal bruckner, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. We are talking with a french president ial election very close. Does france feel ripe for the sort of political shock that weve seen in recent times both in the uk over the brexit vote and in the United States with the victory of donald trump in the president ial election . I hope not, with all my heart i hope we wont face the same electoral results that you had with brexit and that the americans had with trump. So were doing everything to avoid the passage to the far right with Marine Le Pen. But at the present time we have two opposite candidates, jean l