Would he actually know or have a way to find out why Macron secrets are being traded to Pegasus clients, or even reign in the spyware industry at all?
Would the fragile coalition be able to handle this PM doing anything about it, or is this so far outside of their priority list that it doesn't matter and there is room for real reform?
I don’t think this would pass muster as an excuse if Israeli industry had been selling missiles to Morocco for use against France.
Curious to see if it ends up being treated the same.
If it was the EU would’ve fallen by now as I’ve lost a count of how many times states were caught spying on one another.
These things make headlines when they are found by the public but they really are business as usual among governments.
If anything, this only reflects badly on the French services themselves if the President's phone (I assume, or hope, private phone as they are supposed to have custom, secure phones for official business) got owned.