France's Macron shifts to right on schools and birth rate - BBC News

The French president promotes school uniforms, a drug gang crackdown and raising the low birth rate.

1 day agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, LUDOVIC MARIN/AFPImage caption, The president began with a 30-minute opening address followed by two hours of questionsBy Hugh SchofieldBBC News, ParísFrench President Emmanuel Macron has come off the fence and opened the way for policies that are unmistakably on the political right.

That is the unanimous verdict after he gave a long, televised press conference on Tuesday evening.

He promoted uniforms in schools, a crackdown on drugs gangs, and steps to boost France's declining birth rate.

Left-wing commentators deplored his apparent shift from the crafted political balance of recent years.

But they said they suspected all along the right was where his heart lay.

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