i m shaun ley. this sunday, emmanuel macron takes office as president of france. his nascent political organisation promises to get france s sluggish economy on the move again. but only if, from nowhere, it can win legislative elections next month. sylvie goulard, a liberal mep frustrated by previous presidents‘ broken promises to reform, has thrown her support behind mr macron. even if he gains enough assembly members to get his way, can a president macron deliver and move france forward, when the minister macron he was just months ago could not? sylvie goulard, welcome to hardtalk, joining us from paris today for this interview. it s an important time for your country, one of the most important of recent years. let me begin with the question of a mandate. does macron see his victory, do you believe, as a mandate to change france? yes, of course he does. the government, because he is absolutely convinced, and so am i, that our country desperately needs reforms, and has als
this sunday, emmanuel macron takes office as president of france. his political organisation promises to get france s sluggish economy on the move again. but only if, from nowhere, it can win legislative elections next month. sylvie goulard, a liberal mep frustrated by previous presidents‘ broken promises to reform, has thrown her support behind mr macron. even if he gains enough assembly members to get his way, can a president macron deliver and move france forward, when the minister macron he was just months ago could not? sylvie goulard, welcome to hardtalk. joining us from paris today for this interview. it s an important time for your country, one of the most important of recent years. let me begin with the question of a mandate. does macron see his victory, do you believe, as a mandate to change france? yes, of course he does. he created this movement, and took the risk to leave the government because he is absolutely convinced, and so am i, that our country desperate
his political organisation promises to get france s sluggish economy on the move again. but only if, from nowhere, it can win legislative elections next month. sylvie goulard, a liberal mep frustrated by previous presidents‘ broken promises to reform, has thrown her support behind mr macron. even if he gains enough assembly members to get his way, can a president macron deliver and move france forward, when the minister macron he was just months ago could not? sylvie goulard, welcome to hardtalk, joining us from paris today for this interview. it s an important time for your country, one of the most important of recent years. let me begin with the question of a mandate. does macron see his victory, do you believe, as a mandate to change france? yes, of course he does. he created this movement, and took the risk to leave the government because he is absolutely convinced, and so am i, that our country desperately needs reforms, and has also many assets to be in a better situa
better value in their energy bills, they have to do something about it, in your view, and cannot rely on government. absolutely. it is difficult for a government entities to decide, by, we re going to provide better deals, and to exaggerate only provided to? how do they identify the customers and extra ct they identify the customers and extract them from existing suppliers? it is very difficult to be impartial with nationalisation. either you nationalise the whole thing, and there are lots of issues around that, or you cannot do what they are trying to do at a diesel level. we re having some slight difficulties with your connection, but we will persist because they re getting 95% of what you re saying. people can fill in the bit that is missing. just on that idea of policy ideas, presumably with it will have looked at the option you mentioned for practical reasons. this is a bit ofa for practical reasons. this is a bit of a halfway house. the conservatives have their own half
we hearfrom michel faber, whose new book of poems came about after his wife s death. good evening and welcome to bbc news. labour s election manifesto has been formally approved by the party leadership and is set to be launched within days. but some of the main parts of the manifesto have already found their way into the public domain, after a version of the document was leaked overnight. it included proposals to re nationalise the railways, and to scrap university tuition fees in england. the shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell, said it was a modern and progressive set of proposals. the party leaderjeremy corbyn said the manifesto had been unanimously agreed, and all its contents were carefully costed. they wondered what exactly was going on, and you might too. this was meant to be the grand unveiling of a labour poster, albeit on a waste ground in south london. but the party leader was nowhere to be seen. jeremy corbyn should have been selling the slogan. he d been promised