France’s crisis: Our most important partner is. The situation in the morning

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It was Italy for many years that was considered a haven of political instability. Now France and Germany’s most important partner country have now expired. Four different prime minister in Matignon has resided since last year. Today the current French government will also fall, after that at least everything looks.

Because prime minister François Bayrou In the fragmented parliament, there is no support for his radical savings plans, he throws the towel in office after only nine months. He has announced a vote in parliament hastily and without need – in which it is clear in advance that the son of a farmer from the Pyrenees will lose them. Because the government used by President Macron does not have its own majority in parliament.

It is therefore a maneuver, expressly approved by Macron, which is also only titled by political friends and enemies in France as a “political suicide”. With what meaning? For the second time within a very short time, leading politicians do not do justice to their responsibility and negligently tightened the political crisis of the country. In June of last year, President Macron declared new elections in a short-circuit decision, calculated expectantly-and thus only caused the current instability.

Bayrou can now be credited that he not only wanted to recognize the massive problem with France’s debt, but also wanted to tackle. He has submitted a program that provides for savings of 44 billion euros in the state budget and the cancellation of two statutory holidays. But instead of pulling off after the expected outcry and forging a political compromise that would have been conceivable, Bayrou did not make such institutions. He prefers to show himself insulted – to the damage of the country.

I want something to you today star Actually seekable to avoid: a difficult to read interview. But you may be able to get an insight into how interviews are common in this country and when this practice reaches its limits.

A colleague asked the green member of the Bundestag Paula Piechotta for a conversation, who is one of the loudest critics of leading Union politicians. The 38-year-old budget expert gladly got involved in the interview-but then reacted with censorship.

After three defeats in the World Cup qualification, the mood around the German national soccer team and their coach Julian Nagelsmann darkened. Now the Germans have won 3: 1 against Northern Ireland. But despite the victory, the game only showed how unsettled the team is currently.

Again and again the German defenders made simple ball losses, and in the attack the team acted frighteningly. How can the trend reversal work?

Hamas attacked Israel almost two years ago, and since then the country has been increasingly brutal in its response. Now the Israeli army apparently wants to take Gaza city. At the same time, plans for the redesign of the Gaza Strip are to circulate in the US government, which provide for an at least temporary resettlement of the residents.

The renowned international lawyer Ben Saul orders the situation in our interview – and says many remarkable sentences, such as this: “The particularly cruel thing about this conflict is that Israel is a kind of existential threat, although it was not.” And: “The fact that Israel’s political leadership is willing to destroy every opportunity for civil life in a foreign country in response to a relatively low threat: this shows the deep degeneration of the Israeli attacks on Gaza.” Read the whole interview here:

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