Guest of the "Grand Rendez-vous" on Europe 1, Ségolène Royal, former Minister of the Environment and ex-ambassador for the poles, returned to the consequences of the coronavirus crisis in France. In particular, she believes that the past few months have shown "the collapse of liberal ideology". 

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Will the next world be different? In any case, it will not be as before, to understand Ségolène Royal. Guest of the  Grand Rendez-vous  on Europe 1 Sunday, the former Minister of the Environment and ex-ambassador for the poles explained that the coronavirus health crisis will leave heavy ideological consequences. Particularly for the power in place, estimates the one who was in the same government as Emmanuel Macron between 2014 and 2016. 

"We need a powerful state"

"There was a respectable ideological corpus as such, which was liberal ideology," recalls Ségolène Royal. "What is extraordinary is the collapse of this liberal ideology," she said, saying that now, "we need a powerful state." 

For the former minister, this crisis also testifies to "the collapse of a rather isolated and arrogant conception of power". Because, says Ségolène Royal, Emmanuel Macron's strategy was to say "I know, we know and we are going to take the French '."

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"We still had a lot of shocks and reforms imposed from above by a group of men who thought what was good for France. That's what is falling apart," she explains, citing the episode of yellow vests or the pension reform. "And so much the better," adds Ségolène Royal, "we must learn the lessons, and change the mode of governance and the content of the policy. 

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