Lee Hockstader: Macron’s hubris-fuelled crash may sink the European dream
French president Emmanuel Macron is seen as arrogant by a big chunk of the electorate. Photo: AP
In most Western countries, municipal authorities or the courts would have settled a stand-off such as the one that began last year, when Paris police ordered the temporary removal of hundreds of antiquarian bookstalls that have bracketed the Seine for centuries.
It was a security measure ahead of the Summer Olympics, when 300,000 spectators will throng the river’s banks for the opening ceremonies on July 26.
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