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Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, how to pass a budget that keeps bringing down the French government
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Behind the scenes at The Economist

Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, France’s finance minister on how to pass a budget that keeps…

The government could collapse today

The budgetary impasse is just one symptom of collective political uselessness

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

Political chaos, jumpy bond markets and street protests

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