Geopolitics
France's Fiscal Paralysis and the Hollow Promise of Western Multilateralism
French Finance Minister Roland Lescure, during an Atlantic Council interview, candidly explains France's domestic fiscal challenges, its use of constitutional guardrails to enforce budget discipline, and his optimism for multilateral G7 engagement with the Global South. It is a revealing glimpse into the internal fractures of a Western power, clinging to a multilateral order it designed to serve its own interests while failing to address its own political paralysis and demographic decline.
