23-01-2019 07:00 via theguardian.com

Can Emmanuel Macron’s ‘great national debate’ save his presidency? | Guillaume Liegey

Talk of tax cuts and curbs to immigration will only go so far – the gilets jaunes protesters need to be listened to nowEarlier this month, in an open letter to French citizens, President Emmanuel Macron suggested that introducing immigration quotas might help address the gilets jaunes crisis. This predictably made many on the left cringe. It also brought to mind a Hillary Clinton interview in the Guardian last year, in which she gave her views on the root cause of rightwing populism. &ldqu
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