Rocard s return 罗卡尔强势回归 The former prime minister s ideas are making acomeback 前首相的理念卷土重来 THE left wing of the French Socialist Party was stillreeling this week after the shock eviction of Arnaud Montebourg, a populist industry minister,and his replacement by Emmanuel Macron, a former investment banker. Fran?ois Hollande,after all, was elected Socialist president in 2012 declaring that his main adversary was theworld of finance. Yet on August 31st, in a defiant speech to party members in the port of LaRochelle, Manuel Valls, his prime minister, made no apology, reasserting the government smore pro-business line. 继本周主张民粹主义的经济部长阿尔诺蒙特布尔下台之后,法国社会党左翼依旧处于深深的震惊之中无法自拔----前投资银行家马克龙接了蒙特布尔的班。毕竟2012年弗朗索瓦 奥朗德在竞选社会党领袖的时候曾声称他的主要敌手是金融支配的世界。然而在8月11日,在拉罗谢尔,奥朗德的总理曼努埃尔瓦尔斯发表了一篇极具挑衅性的讲话,并且毫不脸红地重复着政府要求企业履行责任契约的想法。 The most important shift taking place within the government, however, may not be theappointment of a single new young minister. It is rather the closet takeover by socialdemocrats linked to Michel Rocard, France s prime minister from 1988 to 1991. |