1. Skip to content
  2. Skip to main menu
  3. Skip to more DW sites
PoliticsFrance

France — will it de-stabilize the whole continent?

26:14

This browser does not support the video element.

October 16, 2025

President Macron’s urgent reforms are dead, the opposition wants fresh elections. Has France become ungovernable? Our guests: Thibaut Madelin (Les Echos), Leonhard Horowski (Historian), Daniela Schwarzer (Bertelsmann)

Image: DW

 

 

 

Leonhard Horowski, Historian at the Humboldt University here in Berlin.

 

Image: DW

 

 

 

Thibaut Madelin,Berlin correspondent of French business daily Les Echos.

Image: DW

 

 

 

 

 

Daniela Schwarzer, political scientist and member of the board of the Bertelsmann Foundation, a think tank. 

Skip next section About the show

About the show

To the point — International Debate from Berlin

Strong opinions, clear points of view, international agendas. Three journalists join our presenter and go straight to the point on an international issue that’s making news. It’s controversy and confrontation. It’s background and analysis. It’s the issues that are moving our world.

Skip next section DW's Top Story

DW's Top Story

Skip next section More stories from DW