PARIS — The promises are appealing -– and expensive. Macron acknowledged that National Rally’s economic pledges “perhaps make people happy,” but claimed they would cost 100 billion euros annually. And the left’s plans, he charged, are “four times worse in terms of cost.’’ Jordan Bardella, the National Rally president gunning to become France’s prime minister in the election, poo-poos the …
City traders are selling off French bonds amid mounting fears of a debt crisis in Europe’s second-largest economy. Investors are pulling money out of French government debt ahead of a prospective victory for Marine Le Pen’s hard-right National Rally at the upcoming snap election. This culminated in Bruno Le Maire, France’s finance minister, warning that the country could face a …
