{"id":132254,"date":"2024-07-09T09:20:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T06:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/french-election-gridlock-means-yet-more-uncertainty-for-europe\/"},"modified":"2024-07-09T09:20:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T06:20:34","slug":"french-election-gridlock-means-yet-more-uncertainty-for-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/french-election-gridlock-means-yet-more-uncertainty-for-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"French election gridlock means yet more uncertainty for Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132254\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n\u201cThe worst has been avoided,\u201d a senior EU diplomat said, capturing the mood in Brussels on Sunday night when it became clear that the far-right National Rally would not gain a majority in parliament, as many had predicted after the first round of voting a week earlier. Instead the far right finished third, behind the left-wing alliance and Emmanuel Macron\u2019s centrists. Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella\u2019s failure to grab the reins of the French parliament will have delighted mainstream pro-Europeans.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s where the good news ends as France \u2014 alongside Germany, the other big beast in the EU, which has its own internal struggles \u2014 has now been plunged into political chaos, with no party winning enough seats for a majority. The paralysis could last months \u2014 and damage the EU. \u201cIf soon everything stalls in both Paris and Berlin because of international political disagreements, Europe will really have a problem,\u201d said an EU diplomat who, like others quoted in this piece, was granted anonymity to speak freely.<\/p>\n<p>Macron has been a huge presence on the European front, whether by reshaping the EU\u2019s trade agenda, pushing for a more ambitious industrial defense and competitiveness agenda, or eyeing more strategic autonomy ahead of a potential second Donald Trump presidency. Now, the French president is weakened and distracted by his troubles at home. Whatever government eventually emerges from the fragmented French parliament, it is unlikely to be stable for long.<\/p>\n<p>French politicians will also have the presidential election of 2027 on their minds while making decisions from now on. The teaming up of mainstream and leftist parties to keep the far-right out may not happen again, and the 2027 election could result in a far-right president. \u201cA new government is likely to focus on domestic issues rather than foreign policy. However, French politics will remain divisive and hard to manage, which will diminish France\u2019s clout on the European and international stage,\u201d said C\u00e9lia Belin of the Paris office of the European Council of Foreign Relations, a think tank.<\/p>\n<p>Manfred Weber, president of the European People\u2019s Party, took to social media to say that \u201cfar from clarifying the political situation, Macron plunged France into confusion, strengthening the extremes. \u201cVery worried about the far left &amp; far right anti-EU rhetoric,\u201d he said, adding \u201cwe need a strong democratic force @lesRepublicains giving a real alternative to put France back on its feet,\u201d a reference to the center-right Les R\u00e9publicains, which is a member of the EPP and won just over eight percent of the vote in the French election.<\/p>\n<p>The main concern, according to a senior French official, has to do with money: \u201cWe just don\u2019t know how we\u2019re going to pass the finance bill in this political context, despite the risk of the EU triggering an excessive deficit procedure against France.\u201d France\u2019s internal gridlock would be easier for the EU to deal with if the other half of the Franco-German engine was running well.<\/p>\n<p>But it isn\u2019t. Following weak European election results for all three parties in the German coalition, which together won just 31 percent of the vote, Chancellor Olaf Scholz managed to secure a deal on a draft budget for 2025, defusing a crisis \u2014 at least for the moment \u2014 that could have brought down his government. Scholz may have survived but his internal coalition headaches mean there\u2019s little time for the German chancellor to lead on the European stage \u2014 even if he\u2019d shown any interest in doing so.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/europe-elections-2024-france-germany-emmanuel-macron-olaf-scholz-marine-le-pen-debt-crisis\/\">Read more<\/a>&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/europe-elections-2024-france-germany-emmanuel-macron-olaf-scholz-marine-le-pen-debt-crisis\/\">Politico<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/french-election-gridlock-means-yet-more-uncertainty-for-europe\/\">French election gridlock means yet more uncertainty for Europe<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1931,15210,5506,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-132254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-french","tag-gridlock","tag-uncertainty","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}