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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 ....
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 ....
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 ....
Bombshell announcement frorom t french president. We have been saying it, but i want to go back to the moment again. I was sure he was going to say he was running for the presidency next year. They said first sitting president not to seek reelection. Yes, first time in the fifth republic, which has been going on since 1958, hasnt it . So it is a first in 60odd years. It is true that it was a very sort of shocking twist, and it sounded like he was going to say after doing this victory lap as he put it earlier, that he was going to say all this means is that i am going to continue my good work into a second fiveyear term. Then suddenly it all fell away. But to understand the she said and earlier this is a bit humiliating of course. There is no question about it. But it could have been even worse if he had said i am going to go for it and then he is knocked out of the first round of the socialist primary in january. Opinion polls were showing that he would be beaten by at least two candid ....
Bombshell announcement frorom t french president. We have been saying it, but i want to go back to the moment again. I was sure he was going to say he was running for the presidency next year. They said first sitting president not to seek reelection. Yes, first time in the fifth republic, which has been going on since 1958, hasnt it . So it is a first in 60odd years. It is true that it was a very sort of shocking twist, and it sounded like he was going to say after doing this victory lap as he put it earlier, that he was going to say all this means is that i am going to continue my good work into a second fiveyear term. Then suddenly it all fell away. But to understand the she said and earlier this is a bit humiliating of course. There is no question about it. But it could have been even worse if he had said i am going to go for it and then he is knocked out of the first round of the socialist primary in january. Opinion polls were showing that he would be beaten by at least two candid ....