From Reuters.

Bleak finances, surging far-right support (https://www.breakingviews.com/columns/considered-view/frances-fiscal-drift-confirms-peripheral-status-2025-07-16/) and a key vote that could topple (https://www.breakingviews.com/columns/breaking-view/france-enters-ineluctable-slow-motion-crash-2025-08-26/) Prime Minister François Bayrou: long-simmering instability in the No. 2 euro zone economy (https://www.breakingviews.com/columns/considered-view/paris-rome-trade-places-bond-purgatory-2025-08-20/) may boil over. In this week’s Viewsroom, Breakingviews columnists debate what it means for the bloc’s future.

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