A Verdict on Macron’s Glaring Shortcomings

The ongoing protests across France serve as a vital test for the political appeal of the incumbent President Emmanuel Macron.

But education was not the only point of concern.

A Litany of Grievances

The grievances go well beyond the education sector. Financial cuts in different sectors of the public welfare, coupled with the blind implementation of the neo-liberal model of governance, which insists on a substantial “roll-back” of the state in an attempt to resurrect the classical model of laissez-faire economics, make it look like the French government is attempting to champion Social Darwinism—where the government would serve as the representative only of the wealthy class even as the socio-economically vulnerable sections of the French society must fend for themselves.

This echoes the mindset of the Ancien Régime of........

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