France’s youngest President, Emanuel Macron has been much derided since
taking office in May, for likening himself to Jupiter, with make-up for
the cameras, and expensive haircuts. His
labor reforms, which roll back decades of workers’ gains, provoked
massive opposition. While Europe’s foremost problem, thanks to US wars
that decimated parts of the Middle East and Africa, has been the
seemingly uncontrollable surge of Muslim migrants. NATO’s 2011 bombing
campaign, which took out Lybia’s relatively successful leader, Muammar
Ghaddafi, created a chaotic situation which enabled traffickers to sell
young Africans fleeing conflict, drought, famine and wars, passage to
Europe, knowing that thousands would perish crossing the Mediterranean
in makeshift embarkations.
