Emmanuel Macron overacts on the international front to the point of making his allies uncomfortable, as explained today in the International section. Domestic and foreign policy are communicating vessels. The trick of covering up domestic failures with successes on the global stage is as old as politics. Augustus already boasted of his victories on the battlefields of the empire when they were badly given in Rome. And Macron urgently needs a boost to relaunch his agonizing presidency. At this time, you must be wondering what was best for you: if a setback in the Constitutional Council that would dismantle your pension reform and, incidentally, deflate the protests in the street, allowing you to set the counter to zero or, as has ended up happening , a ruling that validates his plan but widens the abyss between Elisha and public opinion to unknown extremes.
It is clear that, in France, everyone has lost: Macron has had to impose an increase in the retirement age with a decree and riot police and the French as a whole have said goodbye to part of what, in the eyes of many Europeans, was a difficult privilege to sustain in full withdrawal of the welfare state. What is not so obvious – it will take some time before it can be determined – is whether this mobilization due to retirement age is a purely domestic matter, as it seems, or if, in reality, it is one of the The first battles that are being fought in Europe in favor of what will be the great demand of the coming years: a universal basic income that allows them to survive the massive destruction of jobs that the new advances in artificial intelligence (AI) will cause. Probably, we still lack perspective to know it. But in a few years –or months– we will leave doubts.
The amalgam of demands that feeds the French mobilization, a continuation of the yellow vests, goes beyond the age at which the pension can begin to be collected. Deep down, the individual’s sense of helplessness in the face of hitherto unimaginable threats, from the climate crisis and great migrations to the supplanting of employment by artificial workers of the latest generation, may underlie.
