Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181223:15:02:00
In his presidential campaign last year, macron was able to rally france around a message of reform and even multilateralism. now macron has been humbled by the yellow vest street protests. he was forced to backtrack on some of his reforms and adopt new budget busting subsidies in an attempt to nullify the mob and there is the mess in britain as it keeps trying and failing to brexit, italy's budgetary west coast get worse and the embrace of illegal democracy in hungary and poland continues. it all adds up to a depressing picture of europe and the west. but are things really so gloomy? as "polit...