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Europe Edition - Today's top story: Beyond youth and LGBTQ credentials, France’s new prime minister Gabriel Attal reveals Macron’s managerial approach to politics View in browser

 

Europe Edition | 18 January 2024

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A little over a week ago, France got its youngest and first openly gay prime minister. Much like his youthful mentor, Emmanuel Macron, had aimed in 2017 to present an alternative path beyond the right and left, it is hoped the popularity of 34-year-old Gabriel Attal will help shore up a flagging Macron brand, following a year of controversial reforms to the pension and immigration systems.

Will this be enough to revive trust in the government? While there has been some animated chatter about Attal’s age and sexuality, many French people are looking past identity politics to see little novelty. Hence his nickname: “Baby Macron.” From the University of Assas, political scientist Arnaud Mercier asks us to pay attention to what the fourth prime minister in six years reveals about the substance of Macronian politics.

Since November, attacks by Houthis against Israel-linked merchant ships in the Suez Canal have led to a sharp increase in container prices, showing once again how dependent global trade is on these fragile choke points. Sarah Schiffling and Matthew Tickle brief you on the crisis and take you along some of the lesser-known maritime corridors of our globalised lives.

And if you’re among those who associate the Middle Ages with Gothic gloom and cold grey stones, these breath-taking 3D reconstructions of cathedrals might make you think again.

Natalie Sauer

Editor, The Conversation Europe, and "En anglais"

Beyond youth and LGBTQ credentials, France’s new prime minister Gabriel Attal reveals Macron’s managerial approach to politics

Arnaud Mercier, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas

Four different prime minister in six years is unusual under France’s Fifth Republic. Managerial mechanics, absence of a majority and hyper-presidency: focus on the appointment of Gabriel Attal.

Red Sea crisis: Suez Canal is not the only ‘choke point’ that threatens to disrupt global supply chains

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With the Panama Canal in drought and the Strait of Hormuz also vulnerable to Iran, global trade routes are under severe pressure.

Challenging medieval art’s dark, gloomy reputation

José Alberto Moráis Morán, Universidad de León; María Dolores Teijeira Pablos, Universidad de León

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