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Macron convenes French party leaders as soaring energy prices put focus on wars in Iran and Ukraine Haxie Meyers-Belkin is pleased to welcome Renaud Foucart, Senior Lecturer in Economics at Lancaster University’s Management School in the UK. According to Foucart, France’s energy-price crisis exposes a deeper collision between economic constraints, political accountability and an approaching presidential election. In a large EU country where many households and businesses outside densely populated urban areas remain dependent on cars, sharply higher fuel prices can pose an immediate threat to livelihoods.
Foucart interprets French President Emmanuel Macron’s rare Élysée meeting with party leaders over soaring energy prices as both an exercise in presidential legacy-building and an attempt to force prospective successors to confront constraints they might otherwise prefer to evade: high energy costs, rising borrowing costs, limited fiscal room and, above all, the politically difficult question of pension expenditure. Belgium to rule on parole for key figure in 2015 Paris attacks Amid France’s political 'fragmentation', 'a case needs to be made for participatory democracy’ Lack of 'enforcement of EU laws': Consumer products contain 'illegal levels of restricted chemicals' France's far-right Marine Le Pen kicks off 2027 presidential campaign French firefighters on six-week strike after record summer blazes Céline Dion: Fan recounts experience singing with the superstar RN 'breach': Amid 'severe' differences with 'bright, young' Bardella, Le Pen 'dictates party line' © 2026 Copyright France 24 - All rights reserved. France 24 is not responsible for the content of external websites.
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