{"id":169118,"date":"2025-06-09T02:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169118\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T02:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:21:13","slug":"macron-dissolved-the-french-parliament-a-year-ago-how-will-he-surprise-us-again-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169118\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron dissolved the French parliament a year ago. How will he surprise us again? \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Macron throws in the towel<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Calls for the French president\u2019s resignation crescendoed following last year\u2019s disastrous snap election, and there was some speculation he would follow the path of Charles de Gaulle and call it quits in the middle of his term.<\/p>\n<p>Macron, however, said he wasn\u2019t going anywhere, and that still seems to be the case.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>Likelihood<\/strong>:<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"68\" class=\"wp-image-6721083\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0.5-out-of-5.png\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The other Macron throws in the towel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/emmanuel-brigitte-macron-brigitte-macron-caught-camera-squabbling-elysee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">looks<\/a> like she\u2019s had enough with the whole first lady thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>Likelihood<\/strong>:<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"68\" class=\"wp-image-6721068\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-out-of-5.png\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Macron jumps in the Seine\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just for a swim, mind you. Ahead of the Paris Olympics, the hype was high among politicians about swimming in the Seine, Paris\u2019 iconic river which was set to host several competitions. Several of them made good on their promises, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/sports\/video\/2024\/07\/17\/watch-paris-mayor-anne-hidalgo-swims-in-the-seine_6687265_9.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x9253rq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">less<\/a> gusto. The French president <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BFMTV\/status\/1763210535464493096\" target=\"_blank\">promised to do so as well<\/a>, but he has yet to take the plunge.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macron throws in the towel\u00a0 Calls for the French president\u2019s resignation crescendoed following last year\u2019s disastrous snap election,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[11078,1194,6659,31,32,33,28284,295,34,2000,299,36,37,38,12266,366,42,44,2452,33641,46,2443,182,1218,9655,49,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-169118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-batteries","9":"tag-budget","10":"tag-crisis","11":"tag-democracy","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-elections","14":"tag-elections-in-europe","15":"tag-elon-musk","16":"tag-emmanuel-macron","17":"tag-eu","18":"tag-europe","19":"tag-france","20":"tag-francois-bayrou","21":"tag-french-politics","22":"tag-george-w-bush","23":"tag-greenland","24":"tag-jordan-bardella","25":"tag-marine-le-pen","26":"tag-media","27":"tag-new-caledonia","28":"tag-policy","29":"tag-regulation","30":"tag-social-media","31":"tag-steel","32":"tag-thierry-breton","33":"tag-united-states","34":"tag-youth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114651023516532774","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}