{"id":225867,"date":"2026-01-23T12:25:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/01\/23\/walking-centrist-line-far-right-says-budget-too-socialist-far-left-says-budget-as-too-right-wing-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T12:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:25:52","slug":"walking-centrist-line-far-right-says-budget-too-socialist-far-left-says-budget-as-too-right-wing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/01\/23\/walking-centrist-line-far-right-says-budget-too-socialist-far-left-says-budget-as-too-right-wing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&lsquo;Walking centrist line: Far right says budget too socialist, far left says budget as too right-wing&rsquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Catherine Viette is pleased to welcome Dr. Andrew Smith, Historian of Modern France at Queen Mary University of London. In a time of political gridlock and economic uncertainty, the French PM has invoked Article 49.3 to force through its budget. Dr. Smith described this as more of a \u00ab\u00a0negotiated 49.3\u00a0\u00bb, a tactical manoeuvre involving both compromise and constraint. His insights highlight the structural paralysis of a fractured parliament, the symbolic power of budgetary control, and the broader implications for France&rsquo;s fiscal credibility on the European stage.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Viette is pleased to welcome Dr. Andrew Smith, Historian of Modern France at Queen Mary University of London. In a time of political gridlock and economic uncertainty, the French PM has invoked Article 49.3 to force through its budget. Dr. Smith described this as more of a \u00ab\u00a0negotiated 49.3\u00a0\u00bb, a tactical manoeuvre involving both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-225867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}