Macron’s handpicked centrist prime minister has chosen to mess with the one thing that unites the French more than anything: their time off The day after French President Emmanuel Macron said that, in the year 2027 alone, he would blow another roughly €60 billion on weapons for some fantasy war with Russia that France isn’t even in, the French prime minister proposed  axing some statutory holidays in an effort to balance the books. Dude just hit a third rail and electrocuted his political