France declared the state of emergency in 2015,[1] had it renewed ever since, meanwhile that has been institutionalised to spare Macron the embarrassment of constant extension. A declaration of bankruptcy for any self-respecting Western nation. The last time we had that in Europe was in 1967–74 with the Greek military junta. That doesn’t happen because of all the troublesome separatist Corsicans, Basques, Jews, Catholics, or Protestants, btw.
1. wikipedia.org (archive.li)
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