Julian Jackson is a British historian specialist in modern historical past of France, notably the IIIe Republic and the Second World War. Member of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society and Professor Emeritus, Queen Mary University of London. He is the creator of works on France, akin to De Gaulle. A sure concept of France (Seuil, 2019) and The Pétain trial. Vichy in entrance of those judges (Threshold, 2024).
After the movement of censorship of the Barnier authorities, on December 4, 2024, Emmanuel Macron appointed, on the finish of December, François Bayrou as Prime Minister, the fourth head of presidency in a single yr. What evokes you?
Worry, unhappiness and perplexity. What is distressing is that this example was not inevitable: it’s the results of the president’s incomprehensible choice to dissolve the Assembly. He reworked what was for him a tough scenario in a political disaster. Even if the brand new authorities manages to carry – which is much from sure – it won’t be able to provide “Audacity and sense of decisions” That Mr. Macron spoke in his New Year’s message. It is a complete mess.
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