Notre Dame rose again from the ashes - so too can France's battered democracy | Alexander Hurst

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Sixty-six years from the very first flight to the first step on the moon; the shift from the widespread adoption of telephones to video-calling on iPhones; going from attending a segregated school and living under Jim Crow to voting for Barack Obama; practically every city on Earth being no more than 36 hours from any other city on Earth.
49% : The Fourth Republic helped to create the foundations of the EU, and when it floundered in an attempted coup d'état in 1958, was replaced by the one that exists today - the semi-presidential system that was meant to provide stability, but at the moment, is providing discontent instead.
48% : Perhaps they could be integrated into existing institutions, as non-voting bodies that participate in debates and consult on legislation.

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