Gilets Jaunes: A French crisis?

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Mark Leonard speaks with Simon Kuper, Tara Varma and Manuel Lafont Rapnouil about the Yellow Vest Movement, and whetherit’s only a French phenomenon. The podcast was recorded on 21 March 2019.

Bookshelf:

Sur le fil de l'asile by Pasquale Brice 

Harcelées by Astrid de Villaines 

Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain by Fintan O’Toole 

Twilight of the Elites: Prosperity, the Periphery, and the Future of France by Christophe Guilluy & Malcolm DeBevoise 

The 2019 European Election: How anti-Europeans plan to wreck European and what can be done to stop it by Susi Dennison and Pawel Zerka 

Why Viktor Orbán and his allies won’t win the EU elections by Ivan Krastev 

Will the yellow vests movement spread across Europe? by Tara Varma 

Unlock Europe’s majority 

Secrets of the populist playbook: How a new breed of political strategist paved the way for Trump and Orbán by Simon Kuper 

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