Macron’s Bravado Belies the Far-Right’s Advance in France
The president says he doesn’t feel a shade of remorse over his handling of the pandemic, though is such confidence justified?
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Two days after Angela Merkel apologized to Germans for making a mistake in how she handled the coronavirus crisis, Emmanuel Macron was not sorry.
That is in spite of France seeing infections spiral out of control after the president overruled the advice of his own health minister to keep the economy open. A sclerotic immunization program has been muddled by his public flip-flopping over the safety of the AstraZenca vaccine. And doctors are worrying about a shortage of intensive care beds.