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The government could collapse today

Another government has collapsed and elections could bring in the hard right

Why Macron’s prime minister called a shock confidence vote over its debt

There is a real chance that power will fall into the hands of the extremes

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

Emmanuel Macron looks likely to lose another prime minister over an attempt to curb public debt