to be fair though, why would there be an asylum seeker from morocco
no war or nothing there im aware off
It's not the worst monarchy but it's not exactly a free and open political society either.
bad optics or good this week? the overton window shifts weekly in france, I can't keep up sometimes
hmm i wonder why the gulf countries don't take all those muslim refugees and why that isn't a bigger topic of discussion :thinkingemoji:
I missed quite a few media cycles but I don't think most people give a rat's ass. There's more talk of Macron's visit to Africa and his one man show at Ouagadougou university (look it up, I'm sure an english outlet picked it up) as far as those things go. His position is not exactly controversial. Besides opposition parties in France are in total shambles and even the far left Insoumis are struggling despite the labor reforms in fact Mélenchon apparently had a bit of a meltdown over Venezuela on TV when confronted by Laurence Debray, the daughter of Venezuelian scholar Elizabeth Burgos and French writer Régis Debray -yes, the one who was a Che Guevara companion-. She's apparently pro-Macron and a liberal but still, you know, you can't just handwave her pedigree or her familiarity with Latin America. Besides the reform front is pretty busy at the moment. Domestic political headlines currently are more :
- The reform of public education : they're dropping the reform from the former administration that tried to get less days on the schedule in schools (all studies and observers agree that French education has burdened schedules for kids with no added efficiency and that it reproduces social inequalities instead of decreasing it) and the government trying to fix the national system managing the affectation to universities for students (last summer several thousands were left without any university to attend).
- The debate over the Glyphosat and the new formula of the Levothyrox (for Thyroid afflictions) which seems to provoke heavy negative effects for its users (though doctors don't agree whether they're nocebo rections and if it even matters). 3 millions people consume it in France and it's apparently the only product (or quasi) on the market. Merck still produces the old formula in France but it's all shipped to Italy and a class action is incoming.
- The upcoming reform of the national programs for labor training and apprenticeship. Basically every French employee is paying a share of his wages for professional training (alongside pensions and healthcare) and is entitled to total or partial funding to learn new skills every so often. It's filled to the nostrils with money and as you can imagine there's a cottage industry of licenced formation offices vying for subsidized courses, but the results for overall worker polyvalence leave to be desired (France notably has a tense labor market for heavy industry jobs, which are having a big rebound while specialized education is struggling to graduate enough people for a variety of reasons). Alongside with labor law and pensions, it forms the compact that is arguably the second huge french clusterfuck (with education) with tons of layers including the unions having a major say in any change.
- The planned decrease of the corporate tax cut down to 25%.
- Also the Montparnasse Railway Station, one of the major Paris railway hub (all express lines to the West and Southwest, including Nantes, Bordeaux & Toulouse) has suddenly had to shutdown all traffic (excluding public transport) at midday until tomorrow, stranding thousands after a bug crashed the new control system for remote signalization. The station already had a 3 days improvised shutdown in August for another technical issue. The SNCF, hardly the most popular among users or seen in a good light with delays, is taking another round of heavy fire from the government for this.
To give you an idea of the
common man issues here.
