A ‘Reasonably Optimistic’ Take on the French Election Surprise

In the City

From the Paris Bureau, host Stephanie Flanders speaks with Jean-Claude Trichet, former European Central Bank president and Bank of France governor, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Lionel Laurent, and Eleonora Mavroeidi, an economist for Bloomberg Economics, to debrief on the election results.

"The worst has been avoided," says Trichet, but now France must embark on a "very complex maturing process."

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