A certain idea of France<\/p>\n
For a president accustomed to negative headlines, the New York speech was a rare reprieve from the day-to-day negativity in France.<\/p>\n
Radio and TV carried blanket coverage of the U.N. conference, while the center-left Le Monde daily, business newspaper Les Echos and the left-wing Lib\u00e9ration all topped their homepages with blaring headlines about the president\u2019s Palestinian statehood push (the latter paper going so far as to brand it a \u201chistoric day\u201d).<\/p>\n
Only the right-wing Le Figaro daily, France\u2019s No. 2 paper owned by the Dassault Group, pooh-poohed the moment by placing its Macron story below a site-topper on the winner of this year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or football award, Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9.<\/p>\n
Sadly for Macron, that may be as good as it gets three years into his second term in power. <\/p>\n
As much as the French may enjoy reviving the ghost of Gaullism, one good day is unlikely to resurrect the presidency of a leader who has cycled through five prime ministers in the past 15 months, and whose popularity score registered at a dismal 17 percent in a poll published over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Before naming S\u00e9bastien Lecornu as his latest head of government, Macron\u2019s aides were forced to deny he was considering stepping down from the presidency mid-term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A certain idea of France For a president accustomed to negative headlines, the New York speech was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[6505,32,34,2000,299,36,10470,837,40309,43,2820,1814,3046,12338,811,13466,49,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-444945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-emmanuel-macron","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-iraq","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-lars-lokke-rasmussen","17":"tag-macron","18":"tag-marco-rubio","19":"tag-palestine","20":"tag-portugal","21":"tag-sebastien-lecornu","22":"tag-security","23":"tag-terrorism","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115251822109208840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444945","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=444945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}