As president Macron searches for a new prime minister and prepares to address the nation tonight, Brussels looks on in concern over France’s debt crisis. Plus, the latest from South Korea after the attempted martial-law takeover. Then, business news and a festive ‘Global Countdown’. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Coming up on today's program, the rest of Europe regards France with a collective sigh of Please not.
Also ahead, South Koreans continue to gather in huge vigils, making surprisingly tuneful demands for President Yoon to resign immediately following the peculiar and still not entirely explained events of Tuesday night.
Later in the show, we'll wrap up the latest business headlines and check in with our team at the international luxury travel market in Cannes.
And come on, it's nearly Christmas.
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It'll be over before you know it.
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I'm Fernando Gusto Pacheco.
And for today's global countdown, expect Miami synths and Egyptian pop.
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And welcome to today's edition of the Briefing with me, Andrew Muller.
President Emmanuel Macron of France will address his nation later tonight to outline what the heck happens next.
Following yesterday's ejection of Prime Minister Michel Barnier via a no confidence vote in the national assembly, it will not only be France's bemused people tuning in the chaos presently roiling French politics very much concerns a whole continent menaced on one frontier by a revanchist Russia and facing the prospect of abandonment by its key ally, the United States.
I'm joined with more by Suzanne Lynch, Global playbook author and associate editor at Politico.
Suzanne joins us now from Brussels.