And so Germany also manages to win in France. The austere policy imposed by the first economy in the Eurozone also manages to put a wedge in Paris: in the duel of the new that is advancing, or in the dispute between the two 50-year-olds from the Socialist Party Manuel Valls and Arnaud Montebourg, prime minister and economy minister respectively, the point is therefore marked by the first, who following the indications of President François Hollande will form a new government today, torpedoing the dissident head of the Economy, who had dared to question France's policy in Europe, judged excessively loyal to the will of the German Chancellor.
What used to be the Paris-Berlin axis is now increasingly taking on the appearance of a hierarchical relationship, more or less in the same way as what we complain about in Italy or in other countries. Thus throwing the Valls-Hollande couple, as Le Figaro claims, into "an unprecedented crisis". Beyond the point scored against the rebel Montebourg, who will be dismissed from the executive together with the Minister of Education Benoît Hamon and that of Culture Aurélie Filippetti, the tandem that leads France is in fact, according to the French press, close to breaking up. “Either him or me”, Valls would have imposed referring to Montebourg, in tones that the president would not have liked, more accustomed to dialogue than to spectacularisation. So much so that the Elysium forced a sharp denial, hastening to specify that "the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister are exactly on the same line".
Meanwhile, from the Valls clan, despite the loss of key allies, they flaunt security: "Arnaud Montebourg and Benoît Hamon entered the government by accepting a program which then remained the same: everything was clear from the beginning, nothing has changed". assures a senator of the Parti socialiste. But now the government, a few hours after the reshuffle announced for today, is frantically hunting for a new majority to make up for the departure of the dissidents. The race is in particular on the Greens, even if the problem will be to find ministers that the French press itself openly defines as "aligned".
In this regard, there is insistent talk of the former mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoe, whose popularity is always very high: he could go to cover a large ministry that combines Culture and Education. And to the Economy? There are two options, just a few hours after the response: either the unification of the ministries of Economy and Finance, headed by the current minister of the latter, Michel Sapin (who, however, could also replace Justice Christiane Taubira, given departing), or the appointment of the current Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve, a contemporary of Montebourg and also a socialist exponent. Cazeneuve is a man trusted by Hollande and was already part of the Ayrault government, dealing precisely with European affairs.
Waiting to understand how France will unravel, which has recently confirmed economic stagnation and where Hollande's popularity is at an all-time low among all recent presidents (so much so that even early elections are invoked), to mark the point, that true, it is definitely Angela Merkel. Convincing the Mediterranean countries isn't all that difficult, but wreaking havoc on the second largest economy in the Eurozone is more than a signal.
