Change in North Africa following the Arab Spring, the ongoing saga of the eurozone crisis and rumblings in the bowels of the French nuclear industry dominate Tuesday’s French newspapers.
The economics supplement of Le Monde looks at how the new islamic governments in Egypt, Tunisia and Moroccowill manage to make the transition from theology to social reality.
The ordinary people in each country expect a lot from their new rulers. Those new rulers are falling over backwards in their efforts not to scare off foreign investment. Or foreign tourists.
But they also have to deal with the political pressure represented by the supporters of strict Sharia Law, which refuses, among other things, to allow banks to loan money on credit.
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Le Monde‘s analysis suggests that the new rulers have, in each of the three cases, sketched only the vaguest economic programmes.
Perhaps because they haven’t had sufficient time to come to terms with the responsibilities before them. Perhaps because too much clarity might not be good for business.
But, warns Le Monde, those who suffered to make the Arab Spring a political reality won’t wait for ever to see the benefits of their popular revolutions trickle down to the revolutionaries.
