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France
France faces the future
Mar 30th 2006
From The Economist print edition
The country's politicians need to level with the French people on the need to embrace change
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“THE French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in
Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred,
pity or terror but never indifference.” Thus did a young Alexis de Tocqueville
describe his motherland in the early 19th century. His words still carry a
haunting truth. Over the past few years, as other western democracies have
shuffled quietly along, France has by turns stunned, exasperated and bemused.
This week's massive one-day protest, drawing 1m-3m people on to the streets,
was no exception (see article). This particular stand-off, between the centreright
government of Dominique de Villepin and those protesting against his
effort to inject a tiny bit of liberalism into France's rigid labour market, may be defused. The Constitutional Council
was due to rule on the legality of the new law on March 30th. But the underlying difficulty will remain: the
apparent incapacity of the French to adapt to a changing world.
On the face of it, France seems to be going through one of those convulsions that this nation born of revolution
periodically requires in order to break with the past and to move forward. Certainly the students who kicked off the
latest protests seemed to think they were re-enacting the events of May 1968 their parents sprang on Charles de
Gaulle. They have borrowed its slogans (“Beneath the cobblestones, the beach!”) and hijacked its symbols (the
Sorbonne university). In this sense, the revolt appears to be the natural sequel to last autumn's suburban riots,
which prompted the government to impose a state of emergency. Then it was the jobless, ethnic underclass that
rebelled against a system that excluded them.