Kafkaesque is a description used for unexpected and surreal situations occurring because of unintended consequences or scenarios that no one could have planned for. The tough and seemingly terminal spot Paris’s gaming clubs find themselves in two weeks before the end of the year definitely fits that bill.
President Macron is receiving the centrist MP François Bayrou this morning and a new PM should be announced later today, but the lack of a draft Budget 2025 remains the sticking point.
The French capital has seven cercles de jeux offering table games, but no roulette or slots that launched in 2018 as part of an experiment to assess the impact of having gaming establishments in the capital, rather than in tourist and spa towns where casinos are usually based.
