Tipping point? Unrest goes global over soaring fuel prices • FRANCE 24 English

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• It’s easy to lecture world leaders about how fuel subsidies ruin the environment and bleed state coffers dry, but try telling that to beleaguered Bolivians and cornered Kenyans…
• two of the many nations where the energy crisis has reached breaking point with citizens unable to keep up with prices at the pump.
• It’s not just in the Americas, Africa and Asia where the Iran war’s destroying livelihoods and derailing fiscal roadmaps.
• France - which at the outset of an election year is already running the biggest budget deficit of the euro zone 5-point-1 percent of GDP - further loosening purse strings with the Prime Minister announcing fresh measures.
• So, to subsidize or not to subsidize?