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- President Emmanuel Macron held a rare Élysée meeting with party leaders about soaring energy prices.
- Senior Lecturer Renaud Foucart, welcomed by Haxie Meyers-Belkin, said the crises expose economic constraints and political accountability.
- Foucart interpreted the meeting as legacy-building and a push for successors to confront high energy costs.
- He added successors must also face rising borrowing costs, limited fiscal space and pension reform.
