Reader Q&A: what’s next for France? Ask our Europe columnists – live

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Guardian Europe columnists Rokhaya Diallo and Alexander Hurst are taking questions from readers about the riots and protests in France. Join the discussion in the comments here.Eamon McCrisken notes: Comparisons are being made with May 1968 but I think the following should be borne in mind from those times:‘De Gaulle and Pompidou warned the country was threatened with a Communist coup. De Gaulle announced a snap election, calling upon the French to choose between legitimate government and revolutionary anarchy. The May Events in France were curiously peaceful by the standards of revolutionary turbulence elsewhere, or in France’s own past. The

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