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Vincent McAviney: Europe Correspondent on the shaky state of the French government, Emmanuel Macron · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: A lot happening in France today. We've got Trump on
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  Speaker 1: the way for the opening of the Notre Dame. We've
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  Speaker 1: got the Euros I'm worried about they did, and we've
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  Speaker 1: got Macron about to speak because they need a new
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  Speaker 1: Prime minister, Vincent mecap and he's a UK europe correspondent. Vincent.
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  Speaker 1: Has he picked anyone yet? Do we know?
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  Speaker 2: No? He hasn't. Emmanuel Macron has been locked away in
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  Speaker 2: the Elise Palace. He is going to address the French
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  Speaker 2: nation tonight on television to speak to them. It was
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  Speaker 2: months between Gabrielle Atau, the last prime minister, and the
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  Speaker 2: appointment of Michelle Barnier because Macron had called that snap
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  Speaker 2: election which fully divided the French Parliament between his interests
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  Speaker 2: the left and then Marine la Penn sort of far right.
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  Speaker 2: Michelle Barnier was someone that Marine Lapenn, the leader and
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  Speaker 2: longtime rival of Macron, said that she could do business with.
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  Speaker 2: But the whole thing has collapsed, and it's all to
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  Speaker 2: do with the rising French debt, their sort of debt
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  Speaker 2: to GDP ratio. They now have more debt than their
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  Speaker 2: annual GDP, breaking several EU rules on this and so
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  Speaker 2: Michelle Barnier was trying to bring in a budget which
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  Speaker 2: would start to address this, and it was rejected by
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  Speaker 2: the House. So it's causing real problems for President Macrol.
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  Speaker 2: Questions whether or not he can survive to the end
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  Speaker 2: of his term in twenty twenty seven because he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have a prime minister and he doesn't have a government
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  Speaker 2: at the moment. They can't have fresh parliamentary elections until
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  Speaker 2: next summer, so real questions over his position tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just madness really when you think about it, when
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  Speaker 1: we watch the Olympics. So basically back to that state,
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  Speaker 1: you know, no government, no prime minister, and no budget passed.
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  Speaker 1: Romania has revealed it's been hit with an election in
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  Speaker 1: deperience very quickly involves TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, unsurprisingly it seems to be coming from Russia, a
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  Speaker 2: sort of cyber attacks and then trying to influence on
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  Speaker 2: TikTok that's been ahead of their presidential elections this weekend,
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  Speaker 2: where a far right NATO skeptic candidate who has praised
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  Speaker 2: Putin before and has said he will end all aid
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  Speaker 2: and assistance to Ukraine. So no one of Ladimir Putin
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  Speaker 2: wants to maybe try and help this guy into office.
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  Speaker 2: This is Calin Giorgescu. He is now a running and
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  Speaker 2: the Romanian government and intelligence sources are saying that there
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  Speaker 2: has been a lot of paid support for this candidate
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  Speaker 2: on TikTok, using the algorithm and also cyber attacks to
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  Speaker 2: try and benefit him as well. So it seems like
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  Speaker 2: the usual hybrid warfare tactics from Russia against Europe.
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  Speaker 1: Vincent, thank you for that, Vincent mcavinnie, our UK and
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  Speaker 1: Europe correspondent.
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