France’s social security budget faced a razor-thin vote on Tuesday that could spark a new political crisis and leave a €30 billion gap in funding for healthcare, pensions, and welfare. Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, lacking a parliamentary majority, has sought Socialist support by offering to suspend President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform, an overture that has angered centrist and conservative allies and thrown the bill’s prospects into doubt. Head of Modern Languages at the University of Northgram, Paul Smith, joins us to share his insights.
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