French booze-free January falls flat with Macron government - BBC News

President Emmanuel Macron is accused of caving in to the wine lobby by failing to back the campaign.

23 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFPImage caption, President Macron has said in the past he drinks wine twice a dayBy Hugh SchofieldBBC News, ParísFrance's President Emmanuel Macron has been accused of caving in to the wine lobby by failing to lend his weight to an alcohol-free "Dry January".

Fifty specialists on addiction wrote an open letter this week, lamenting the lack of government support for the post-festivity no-drinks campaign.

"Our confidence in the government to carry out a coherent and determined policy against alcoholism is seriously compromised," the doctors wrote.

Dry January came to France in 2020.

In their letter to Le Monde newspaper, the doctors said the Défi de janvier (January Challenge) had become a popular social fixture since it was introduced from the UK, but its success had been achieved in the teeth of government indifference.

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