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France, in Western Europe, encompasses medieval cities, alpine villages and Mediterranean beaches. Paris, its capital, is famed for its fashion houses, classical art museums including the Louvre and monuments like the Eiffel Tower. The country is also renowned for its wines and sophisticated cuisine. Lascaux’s ancient cave drawings, Lyon’s Roman theater and the vast Palace of Versailles attest to its rich history.
The greatest challenge facing Emmanuel Macron isn’t ISIS or the economy, but something more basic: governing…
Emmanuel
Macron, the next president of France, campaigned on a slogan of “Together, France!” And why
not? He is a sunny centrist who attracted votes from the left and the right to decisively defeat the
far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen on Sunday. The center seems not only to
have held, but to have swelled.
But
Macron’s victory could further fracture French politics rather than bridge the
country’s political divisions, illustrating a challenge confronting many
democracies at the moment, especially in Europe: A disenchanted public has
blown up the political establishment, but it’s difficult to then fashion a
well-functioning government out of the pieces. This can produce more
disillusionment with politics, not less….
The politics of France take place with the framework
of a semi-presidential system determined by the French Constitution of the
French Fifth Republic. The nation declares itself to be an "indivisible,
secular, democratic, and social Republic".
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