British Prime Minister Tras was kicked off the stage by his colleagues in the party on the 45th day after he came to power. In contrast, French President Macron has not had a good life at all. Faced with the complex situation at home and abroad, Macron seems to be repeating the mistakes of Trass. Although France is not as dependent on Russia on energy, the impact of this energy crisis on France cannot be underestimated.
France has been in chaos recently. In addition to more than 100,000 people taking to the streets of Paris, the capital, to smash and looting, France's various industries have not made Macron worry-free. Workers in French oil refineries and nuclear power plants have been on strike recently, and the consequence of this is that energy and power facilities are paralyzed. The impact of this on French industrial production and people's livelihood is self-evident.
According to French media reports, more than half of the nuclear power industry, which accounts for two-thirds of the total French power generation, has been forced to shut down, causing the power generation to drop to its lowest in 10 years. In addition, French oil refineries, which accounts for one-third of the total refining capacity in Europe, have dropped their oil production capacity by about 60%. The impact caused by this is not only France, but Europe as a whole.
The serious shortage of fuel and electricity in France has pushed up the soaring prices of other commodities, which has caused strong dissatisfaction among practitioners in other industries. Following the French oil refinery and nuclear power plants workers' strikes, practitioners in key industries such as road transportation, railways, education, medical care and public sector have also held national strikes. The reaction caused by this was that the angry people held a large-scale protest rally again.
The turmoil that France is facing at present is far more serious than the "yellow vest movement" a few years ago. The strong impact on the Macron government is self-evident. If this situation continues, sooner or later he may follow in Tras' footsteps and be ousted by the opposition and angry people. What's bad is that judging from the recent strike wave that cannot be calmed by France and the continued outbreak of public protests, Macron's ability to deal with the crisis seems to have reached the point where he can't handle the crisis.
Macron's approval rating is not high. Faced with the increasingly uncontrollable chaos in France, unless he can come up with practical and effective measures to alleviate this vicious cycle, it will only intensify the crisis and eventually shake his political foundation. But the problem is that in the context of a comprehensive energy crisis in Europe, how can Macron turn the tide?
Macron, depressed, pointed his muzzle at the United States again. According to the " Global Times ", at the press conference after the EU summit, Macron angrily criticized the Biden administration: the price of natural gas sold to Europe by the United States is several times the price of the domestic natural gas market in the United States, and the practice of Washington is a "double standard". To this end, Macron threatened to go to Washington to "talk to Biden and ".
Before this, Macron also made similar remarks, criticizing the US for selling sky-high natural gas to Europe as "not friends enough", and also vowed to find Biden to theory. To this day, Macron has not been on the phone with Biden, let alone meet offline. Macron criticized the United States many times, but in fact he was just yelling. With France's small body, there is no right to "limit prices" of natural gas in the United States.
The United States has tried its best to provoke this war and provide Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars of military aid. Its goal is very big, and it is beyond Macron's control. Macron repeatedly criticized the United States for being "not friends enough" and could not change anything. On the contrary, Macron repeatedly bombarded the US energy export policy in order to let French workers and the public know that it was not Macron's fault that caused this bad situation, but the Americans' fault.
Can Macron survive this political crisis? The outside world does not know. But one thing is certain: as long as the crisis continues and people's lives are affected, Macron's political crisis will not be eliminated. In the distance, Tras was waving to Macron.
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