World Cup Victory Boosts French Morale, but Not Macron's Popularity

Winning the soccer World Cup has turned the French, long-time pessimists, into optimists, but has not boosted President Emmanuel Macron's popularity, a survey showed on Tuesday. Some 62 percent of the French polled by the Odoxa polling institute on July 16, the day after the French team's thrilling 4-2 defeat of Croatia in Moscow, said they were now optimistic about the future. In March 2016, when Odoxa last asked the question, 53 percent of them were...

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