Macron the railway gambler

France’s National Assembly has passed a bill reforming the state-owned SNCF railway company, which has triggered mass strikes by railway workers across the country.

E mmanuel Macron is to launch a media blitz on Thursday in a bid to convince millions of French his reforms are bearing fruit and he can weather rising …

The happy gambler Win or lose, Emmanuel Macron has altered French politics. His race against Marine Le Pen for the presidency has marginalised the traditional parties

In his first year in office, Emmanuel Macron snubbed local mainstream media -- granting few interviews and taking to Twitter and Facebook to directly address the French.

Le président vénézuélien Nicolas Maduro a accusé jeudi son homologue français de "détruire la France", en réponse à Emmanuel Macron qui a estimé que la ...

Who would have thought it? French president Emmanuel Macron has defeated the French railway unions. His victory is as symbolic as that of Thatcher’s defeat…

édition abonné Les projets radicaux d’Emmanuel Macron pour « réinventer » la SNCF. Lors d’un entretien avec des cheminots, le chef de l’Etat a défendu la ...

The sense of Macron as a gambler comes up regularly among those who know him, ... French railway workers march to protest against labour laws, June 2016

But failure could scuttle Macron’s wider economic agenda, as a similar fight doomed Prime Minister Alain Juppé in the mid-1990s. Where things stand: Public opinion on the strikes is narrowly in Macron’s favor. And while his popularity has slumped below 50%, Macron still commands a large parliamentary majority.

In early April, thousands of French rail workers filled a square outside one of Paris's largest stations at the start of a strike against President Emmanuel Macron's ...