A new government without a natural majority in parliament and little popular support will attempt over the next two years to impose the economic reforms which France has resisted, or skirted, for two decades. Officially, the administration that took office tonight – the fourth government of François Hollande’s 27-months-old presidency – will be a band of like-minded brothers and sisters loyal to the courageous, reformist line of the President and his Prime Minister, Manuel Valls. Looked at another way, it will be a narrow, unrepresentative administration trying to impose complex political and economic choices on a q ... (full story)