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Serge Halimi: ‘A junior partner to Germany’

Editorial director of Le Monde diplomatique discusses the reasons the French economy is in trouble today.

France has accepted to be a junior partner of Germany.

by Serge Halimi, Le Monde diplomatique

Serge Halimi is the editorial director of Le Monde diplomatique .

He specialises in US and French politics.

Halimi is the author of two best-selling books, including one on the rebirth of the neoliberal economic order, Le Grand bond en arrière

He spoke to Empire about how the French economy is in trouble today, largely because of the policies which Le Monde diplomatique has condemned for the last three decades.

  

 

 

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