For this first episode, Alexandra Saviana, journalist from the Société de L’Express service, and Hugues Tertrais, historian and former president of the French Overseas History Society, look back on the failure of Emmanuel Macron’s five-year term and on the rupture of its policy in the management of the crisis in New Caledonia.
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The team: Charlotte Baris (presentation), Agathe Hernier (writing), Jules Krot (editing and production)
Credits: LCP, Government, France Info, Public Senate, RMC, Elysée
Music and dressing: Emmanuel Herschon/Studio Torrent
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Charlotte Baris: In recent months, New Caledonia has been on everyone’s lips, particularly those of Michel Barnier. On October 1, the new Prime Minister speaks before the National Assembly for more than an hour to detail his priorities in what is called a general policy declaration. He returns to overseas issues, and particularly addresses the crisis that has been shaking the South Pacific archipelago for several months.
A few months earlier, last January, his predecessor, Gabriel Attal, had devoted barely a minute of his speech to overseas territories. Today, the subject seems high on the political agenda. Especially since the situation is serious in New Caledonia.
To go further:
New Caledonia: revelations about interference from Azerbaijan and Russia
Jean-Jacques Brot: “New Caledonia has regressed by forty years in a few months”
New Caledonia: behind the scenes of Michel Barnier’s plan to save the archipelago