Barring a last-minute U-turn by the far-right leader Marine Le Pen or other opposition, a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Michel Barnier seems set to plunge France into the unknown as early as Wednesday. If it does pass, it will be the first time a government has been toppled in this way since Georges Pompidou’s in 1962. The EU’s second-largest economy will be left struggling to form a workable administration and pass an emergency budget by the year-end, the reputation of its political class further dented. It is hard to think of a worse moment: a month after the implosion of Olaf Scholz’s coalition in Germany, and weeks before Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
除非极右翼领导人马琳•勒庞(Marine Le Pen)或其他反对派在最后一刻突然转向，否则对总理米歇尔•巴尼耶(Michel Barnier)的不信任投票似乎将在周三早些时候将法国推入未知境地。如果投票通过，这将是自1962年乔治•蓬皮杜(Georges Pompidou)以来首次以这种方式推翻政府。这个欧盟第二大manbetx20客户端下载 体将很难组建一个可行的政府，并在年底前通过紧急预算，其政治阶层的声誉将进一步受损。很难想象有比这更糟糕的时刻：德国奥拉夫•朔尔茨(Olaf Scholz)的联盟解体一个月后，以及唐纳德•特朗普(Donald Trump)重返白宫的几周前。