Less exceptional: how globalisation is shifting France’s political fault lines

Major analysis reports on a study by Telos of the growing cleavage of opinion in France between the political right and left over the way France should react to globalisation. As the left hardens in defence of the country's social model, there are signs that traditionally paternalistic strains of Gaullism are starting to give way to an accommodation with economic liberalism.

Telos-eu: Article: Mondialisation: un clivage gauche / droite, 29 May 2006 http://www.telos-eu.com/2006/05/mondialisation_un_clivage_gauc.php

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