A new direction for France?

Published: April 1, 2014, 11 p.m.

b'President Fran\\xe7ois Hollande\'s socialist party took a serious drubbing in Sunday\'s local elections. He responded by swiftly sacking his prime minister and replacing him with Manuel Valls, a tough interior minister and economic reformer from the party\'s right wing. So does this appointment signal a modernisng direction for France? Gideon Rachman is joined by Hugh Carnegy, Paris bureau chief, and Ben Hall, world news editor and former Paris correspondent, to discuss.


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