{"id":24829,"date":"2018-12-09T03:22:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T03:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24829"},"modified":"2018-12-09T03:22:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T03:22:12","slug":"emmanuel-macrons-empty-liberalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24829","title":{"rendered":"Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s empty liberalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"68.9864498645\">\n<p>The initial celebrations following French President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/emmanuel-macron.html\">Emmanuel Macron<\/a>&#8216;s election in 2017 seem a long way off as the embattled leader and his government backed down in the face of violent protests.<\/p>\n<p>But wasn&#8217;t avoiding unrest and the entrenchment of populist rage precisely what his presidency was supposed to achieve?<\/p>\n<p>After his election, many saw Macron as the saviour of the political centre in a time of extremes.<\/p>\n<p>On this <em>Reality Check<\/em>, we examine the ways in which Macron&#8217;s government has apparently taken a cavalier attitude to civil liberties, labour protections, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/categories\/human_rights.html\">human rights<\/a>, as well as the standards of accountability essential to a functioning democracy.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>Follow\u00a0<em>UpFront<\/em>\u00a0on Twitter<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJUpFront\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0@AJUpFront<\/a>\u00a0and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AJUpFront\/?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Facebook.<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The initial celebrations following French President Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s election in 2017 seem a long way off as the embattled leader and his government backed down in the face of violent protests. But wasn&#8217;t avoiding unrest and the entrenchment of populist rage precisely what his presidency was supposed to achieve? After his election, many saw Macron&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}