French shifts on school, birth rights

BBC :
French President Emmanuel Macron has come off the fence and opened the way for policies that are unmistakably on the political right.
That is the unanimous verdict after he gave a long, televised press conference on Tuesday evening.
He promoted uniforms in schools, a crackdown on drugs gangs, and steps to boost France’s declining birth rate.
Left-wing commentators deplored his apparent shift from the crafted political balance of recent years.
But they said they suspected all along the right was where his heart lay.
Commentators on the right said they were delighted by his apparent conversion to their views, but suspected it was all a sham.
Macron appeared for two and a half hours before around 100 journalists assembled in the Salle des Fêtes of the Elysée palace.