Jean-Luc Melenchon

Economic issues dominated the campaigns of parties and offered extreme populists on all sides the opportunity to promise easy solutions to complex economic problems.

Despite the sigh of relief over Emmanuel Macron’s first-place finish, the first round of the French presidential elections sent a perfectly clear message that cannot be ignored.

It was first in Greece that supercilious political forces of imprudence, self-deception, and illusion won the day.