With less than three weeks to go before the first round of voting in France's presidential election, we check in on the latest twists and turns of the campaign trail with Andrew Smith, a professor of contemporary French history at the University of Chichester. He unpicks far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s pledge to reduce France's retirement age to 60 (down from the current 62). Our guest also takes a look at the reasons behind President Emmanuel Macron's manifesto focus on bolstering French self-sufficiency across everything from energy to agriculture.


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