As European governments try to narrow deficits while servicing debt at much higher yields, distributional conflict keeps moving from parliaments to the streets, so political risk premiums on European sovereign debt recur with each consolidation attempt.
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Moulin's projection of a €100 billion annual French interest bill by 2028-29, alongside a 17-month low for the euro, makes further budget cuts in France harder to avoid. Each new round of cuts is when the thesis expects conflict to move to the streets.
French student protests spread with blockades closing more than 160 schools and disrupting transport in several cities, over 1,900 people detained, and Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu convening a crisis meeting. Mass detentions and a prime-ministerial crisis meeting show consolidation being contested in the street rather than parliament, and Polymarket's $6.4M French presidential book has Marine Le Pen at 46% — the political-realignment cost the thesis expects these episodes to compound.
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Moulin's projection of a €100 billion annual French interest bill by 2028-29, alongside a 17-month low for the euro, makes further budget cuts in France harder to avoid. Each new round of cuts is when the thesis expects conflict to move to the streets.
Financial Times MarketsSupporting · October 3, 2026
French student protests spread as more than 1,900 people are detained
French student protests spread with blockades closing more than 160 schools and disrupting transport in several cities, over 1,900 people detained, and Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu convening a crisis meeting. Mass detentions and a prime-ministerial crisis meeting show consolidation being contested in the street rather than parliament, and Polymarket's $6.4M French presidential book has Marine Le Pen at 46% — the political-realignment cost the thesis expects these episodes to compound.
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