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因感到被国家抛弃,法国市长们集体辞职

2018-11-12 19:16 互联网 /特朗普

据《纽约时报》,今年以来,法国农村地区已经有150多名市长辞职,他们表示,马克龙发起的改革让自己感觉被国家抛弃了。

去年年底,法国勃艮第地区的市长Gentilhomme先生给马克龙写了一封信,称自己压力太大而且正在戒烟,他无法忍受该市400多座村庄的凋敝。

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“30年了,我已经受够了。妥协、保守的承诺和国家的退出让我身心俱疲。”Gentilhomme在信中写道,他在77岁前曾是一名法国海军海豹突击队潜水员。

他在信中表达了其对法国腹地的焦虑和担忧。据法国媒体报道,目前,法国辞职的市长人数可能处于历史最高水平,比之前的选举周期高出32%到50%。《Politico》杂志称,自2014年以来,法国共有超过1000名市长辞职。

更少的权力,更大的责任

有分析认为,市长们的辞职潮反映了今天法国社会中的各种冲突,这些冲突因马克龙的改革撼动了传统而不断加深。

长期以来,市长是法国传统社会生活的支柱,欧洲大陆上没有哪个国家的市长人数超过法国。法国共有35502位市长,他们占欧盟市长总人数的40%。在他们所管辖的小城镇中,有两万个小城镇的人口不足500人。

其实,在马克龙上任之前,法国就面临着一个严峻的问题,即它是否还能承受如此多的小行政单位,这些小城镇在削减成本和行政重组上面临着巨大的压力。

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根据2015年的一项法律,法国的小城镇被命令合并为15000人以上的行政单位。发展经济、管理水资源、提高税收的权力也随之重新整合。一位支持马克龙的法国议员说:

“在互联网时代,快速运输和削减当地资金是有道理的,它让这些城镇自动聚合来面对新的挑战。马克龙希望提速,希望改革。这可能会让当地官员对他们的未来感到不安。”

近年来,法国农村地区的收入不断萎缩,人口逐年减少,以市长为首的当地官员们不得不为保持经济活力而作斗争。但市长们说,改革给了他们更少的钱和权力,但负担却没有减少。

看不到结果的改革

在德国总理默克尔准备退出欧洲政治舞台之际,马克龙希望将自己定位为欧洲领导人和自由主义价值观的主要捍卫者。

在巴黎刚刚落幕的第一次世界大战纪念活动上,马克龙当着特朗普的面在演讲中说“民族主义是对爱国主义的背叛”,塑料兄弟情一触即破。

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尽管马克龙在努力地塑造形象,但民调显示,马克龙的支持率逐渐下降。他被认为是法国蓬勃发展的大城市的总统,而不是小城镇的代言人。

过去两年,中央政府对小城镇的“资助”急剧下降。从全国范围来看,在马克龙当选的2017年,国家对城镇的拨款已从2014年的420亿欧元降至340亿欧元。

与此同时,马克龙在竞选中承诺要削减当地收入的主要来源——住宿税,该项税收可为当地每年带来220亿欧元的收入,占平均预算的10%。

这一承诺成为马克龙当时备受欢迎的原因之一,因为他减轻了当地居民的税收负担,但却把锅甩给了市长们,让地方的财政受到威胁,最终还是影响了居民们的生活。

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在法国小城镇,当地人的抱怨堆积如山,就连停水停电都会直接“喊话”市长,他们认为市长可以做任何事,但市长们却表示自己无能为力。

在经过18个多月的改革后,法国的失业率几乎没有变化,一直在9%以上徘徊,而经济增长率却只有1.7%左右。

马克龙运动的发言人、法国立法委员格里尼说:“如果我们真的想彻底改变这个国家,就必须花时间进行深刻的变革。”

然而,越来越多的法国人不买账,对马克龙的经济政策失去耐心并变得消极悲观,他们认为他使法国变得更加资本主义,放弃了平等和博爱的传统而只有利于富人。

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Glance around France: Mayors resign en masse and a dark day for wolves in Provence


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Hunters have shot and killed two wolves in the foothills of the Alps near the Provence town of Grasse. Photo: AFP


Our round-up of the stories from around France on Friday includes mayors in mass resignation in central France, wolves being shot in Provence and a street is named after a policeman hero in a Paris suburb.


70 furious mayors and councillors resign to protest maternity closure in Indre
Seventy elected local officials, including 19 mayors and 50 deputy mayors, have resigned in protest at the closure of a maternity ward in the town of Le Blanc in central France.
The move was meant to express “despair at not being listened to by the government,” said Le Blanc’s Socialist mayor Annick Gombert, adding that President Emmanuel Macron’s administration showed “profound contempt for rural territoires.”
The maternity ward was shut in June, meaning that women about to give birth have to make an hour-long journey to maternity wards in the towns of Châteauroux or Poitiers.

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Hunters shoot two wolves in Provence
Hunters have shot and killed two wolves in the foothills of the Alps near the Provence town of Grasse. They were killed as part of a national plan to limit the number of wolves in France, where many farmers are angry at losing sheep to them.
Forty-one wolves have been killed under the scheme out of the planned total of 43 for this year.
Last month around 25 sheep and lambs were killed at a farm in the Provence region, which has suffered a total of around 300 wolf attacks since the start of the year.
Hunting wiped out the grey wolf in France during the 1930s and they only returned in 1992 via Italy -- currently home to around 2,000 wolves -- before spreading into Switzerland and Germany.
Currently there are less than 400 wolves in France.

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Several people taken ill after exposure to pesticide in western France

Emergency workers were called in after several people were taken ill when they were exposed to the pesticide metam sodium in a village near the city of Angers.

Five locals and four pompiers - firefighters who also work as ambulance workers - were treated in the village of Mazé-Milon after they were exposed to the product that a farmer was spreading on his nearby fields.

The product he was using was identified as having the same molecular structure that a few days earlier caused dozens of people to fall ill in the village of Brain-sur-l’Authion, just a few kilometres from Mazé.

Authorities shut down a road near Mazé while the farmer took measures to stop the spread of the metam sodium, notably by watering the land it had been used on to stop it spreading in the air.
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A French farmer sprays a glyphosate herbicide on his land. Photo: AFP
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Paris suburb names street after heroic policeman Arnaud Beltrame


A street in the Paris suburb of Créteil is to be named after the heroic French policeman who was killed after he offered himself in exchange for a hostage in a jihadist siege at a supermarket in March this year.

The southeastern suburb of Créteil will on Sunday baptise a new pedestrian thoroughfare as the Avenue Beltrame.

Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Beltrame, 45, took the place of a woman who gunman Radouane Lakdim was holding hostage in the Super U store in the quiet southwest town of Trebes.

Lakdim, who claimed allegiance to the Islamic State group, shot and stabbed him, prompting a police raid that left the attacker dead. Beltrame later died from his wounds.



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Paris zoo hails arrival of two snow leopard cubs
The mini-zoo in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris has welcomed the birth of two snow leopard cubs.
The cute cubs were actually born in August but the zoo has kept quiet about them until this week, when they started making their first forays around their enclosure.
Visitors are advised that late mornings and late afternoons are the best times to catch a glimpse of the pair of male cubs from the protect species.




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French mayors resign en masse

Also on Europe’s front pages: Sánchez under fire over migration policy and Johnson’s burqa saga still making waves.

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Updated 8/10/18, 2:24 PM CET

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Le Figaro led with a story on a “wave of resignations among the mayors of France.” The paper reported that in the face of increasingly strict regulatory and financial constraints, 1,021 mayors have quit their posts since the municipal elections in 2014 — twice as many as during the previous term. “Brexit without agreement: the great fear of Britain,” was Le Monde’s headline. A no-deal Brexit would pose “unsolvable” problems for the Brits, the paper wrote, including issues with transport and health care.

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Papers in Spain focused on the arrival of the Open Arms boat carrying 87 refugees, which was allowed to dock in the port city of Algeciras after being denied entry by Italy and Malta. Its arrival has “reopened the wave of criticism from all sectors” of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his government’s migrant policy, La Razón reported. Andalusia “explodes,” was El Mundo’s headline, referring to the fact that the regional government has labeled the situation unsustainable.

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Emmanuel Macron sees third French cabinet minister resign in weeks

‘Very few of us can still talk to Macron,’ former ally says






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Gerard Collomb’s resignation was initially rejected ( Getty )

Emmanuel Macron was forced to accept his interior minister’s resignation late on Tuesday after refusing it less than 24 hours previously.

Gerard Collomb, a veteran politician who was one of the French president’s earliest supporters, previously told the Le Figaro newspaper that he wanted to resign so that he could run for election to be mayor of his hometown of Lyon.

“The French people and the people of Lyon need clarity, so I maintain my offer to resign,” the 71-year-old said, when asked whether he would stay on as interior minister after Mr Macron rejected his resignation on Monday.

The former Socialist Party stalwart had recently been critical of the French president.
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“Very few of us can still talk to [Macron],” Mr Collomb was quoted by French media as telling a group of journalists over lunch last month.

“Soon he won’t put up with me anymore. But if we all bow down before him, he’ll end up isolated.”

The politician has also spoken of Mr Macron’s “lack of humility” and dismissed phrases that the president commonly uses, such as “start up nation”, as out of touch with ordinary people.

Only a week ago presidential aides had told the 71-year-old that the timing of his departure would be decided by the French leader alone.

But Mr Macron’s office confirmed on Tuesday that he had accepted the resignation and that French prime minister Edouard Philippe would assume responsibility for the country’s domestic security, until a replacement has been found.
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Mr Collomb is the third official to resign from the embattled leader’s cabinet in the last few weeks.

Nicolas Hulot, who had served as Mr Macron’s popular environment minister, quit live on air during a radio appearance.

The high profile former television personality questioned whether the French government was truly committed to environmentalism.



He told France’s Inter Radio that he did not want to give the impression “that we’re up to standard on these issues and so I am deciding to quit the government”.

A week later Laura Flassel, who was serving as sports minister, resigned for personal reasons.
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Mr Macron’s approval ratings have plunged to about 30 per cent, from around 60 per cent shortly after he was elected in May 2017 and he has also come under fire for his manner, which some see as aloof and arrogant.

Critics have also described his administration as governing for the wealthy but Mr Macron has previously recovered from low poll numbers.

“I don’t think he is facing a crisis,” said Georgina Wright, a research associate at Chatham House.

“In terms of the resignation, that is not really a surprise. Collomb had already indicated that he was going to resign after the European elections next year.”

“What [Mr Collomb] signalled is that it was a stylistic problem, that Macron is not ready to listen. I think we are going to see a shift in [Mr Macron’s] leadership style and see him being a bit more open and really trying to unite his cabinet going forward.”

“It is quite normal for French presidents in their second and third years to see a drop in poll numbers.”

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DEATH SQUADS CONSPIRACY Secret army of 200 German SAS in neo-Nazi terror plot to slaughter politicians and immigrants
Authorities have smashed a plot by serving and former neo-Nazi members of the country’s special forces to wreak havoc on 'Day X'
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10th November 2018, 12:01 am
Updated: 10th November 2018, 8:13 am
A SECRET army of 200 elite soldiers planned to slaughter politicians and immigrants in Germany, it is revealed today.
Authorities have smashed the plot by serving and former neo-Nazi members of the country’s special forces to wreak havoc on “Day X”.
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A secret army of German SAS soldiers was conspiring to carry out a neo-Nazi terror plot. Pictured, German special forces

The sensational conspiracy is uncovered in a seven-page report by Berlin news weekly Focus.
The breakaway group of the Bundeswehr’s KSK — the equivalent to the SAS — aimed to kill Green Party leader Claudia Roth, foreign minister Heiko Mass and former president Joachim Gauck.
Death squads planned to lure them and other left-wingers to remote locations and assassinate them.
Leaders of asylum seeker groups blamed for terrorism, rapes and social unrest were also in their sights.
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The group’s numbers had swelled as Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the door in 2015 to a million refugees.
The report says: “Numerous interrogations paint a picture of a conspiratorial force that is not supposed to shy away from the killing of political opponents.”
The warriors had planned Day X for when law and order collapsed - which they believed was “imminent”.
Focus reports police at first believed talk of the plot was a beer-fuelled fantasy.
But a former Air Force major broke under interrogation last year to reveal all.



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