AVIGNON, France — Former French president Francois Hollande made the first tentative step into what may or may not be a second career this weekend when he trod the boards at one of the world’s biggest theatre festivals. All the more so since he was playing himself and had to face a residual scepticism that saw him struggle with the lowest approval rating in French political history at the end of his mandate. “They don’t just want countries to leave the EU, they want the end of the whole European project. “My regret is not to have been shared to a bigger number of French people our commitment to the European project,” he said. It was passion and another bestselling memoir that undid Hollande — that by his former lover Valerie Trierweiler.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer July 08, 2019 11:03 UTC