These events did not arise in a vacuum. France has long refused to confront three interlocking realities that its political class treats as taboos: mass uncontrolled immigration, the growing presence and separatism of Islam, and the unaffordable costs of
These events did not emerge from nothing. France has long refused to face three interrelated realities that its political class treats as taboos: massive and uncontrolled immigration, the growing presence and separatism of Islam, and the inescapable costs of the EU's "energy transition".