Election theme
Which French political reporter will be the first to warn that the verdict against the National Rally party leaders will probably not be enough to stop them now that economists have begun to emerge who predict that the world economy may benefit them?
Protests in Paris after the verdict against Marine Le Pen. Thousands of people have gathered in Paris to demonstrate after the verdict against the French right-wing party leader Marine Le Pen.
It was on Monday that Le Pen and about 20 other representatives of the National Rally were convicted of embezzling EU funds. The sentence was imprisonment for four years and a ban on running in political elections for the next five years. See the article on SVT News and the feature on SVT Rapport.
Economics Laureate: "Exact parallel" to the years before the depression of the 1930s. Donald Trump has announced tariffs against the countries of the world, including 20 percent tariffs on EU goods. Since then, the stock markets have plummeted. China has already responded to the tariffs and the EU is expected to give a decision shortly. "He provokes countries around the world to retaliate," says Simon Johnson, one of last year's laureates in economics in memory of Alfred Nobel.
Simon Johnson believes that the parallel to the years after the stock market crash of 1929 is clear. A trade war began and banks failed. Then followed the Great Depression. Watch the feature on SVT News.