Even if it avoids early elections, France looks set to pass a budget which reduces the deficit only fractionally next year and President Macron’s prized pension reforms are now at risk of being partly rolled back. Meanwhile, Germany’s coalition government seems unable to agree on much of its reform agenda.
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