If France can achieve that then there would be perhaps far less fear and rhetoric around the prospect of civil war. Since the brutal murder of a French priest by two homegrown French jihadists, talk of the prospect of a kind of civil war in France has increased. “France still has consensus among political parties for universal values that doesn’t include turning to violence,” Reich told The Local. “This is not a failed state where we don’t have the capacity to stop these things from happening," said Reich. While France has numerous issues that are all crisscrossing, Reich, a professor from Rutgers University in the US, believes the country’s population and its democratic institutions are resolute enough.

Source: The Local July 29, 2016 11:26 UTC