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Together apart: with no majority, Macron has to rethink his and France’s future
How will the French president keep his country stable, and with which party can he form a coalition ?
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French politics & society
Crazy world of politics as Macron’s challenges move from Right to Left
Richard Ogier explains why France’s newly re-elected president still has an uphill battle trying to navigate the…
Spectre of surging far right as France prepares to vote
Marine Le Pen’s concerted attempts at softening her image – she and her cats are a favourite…
How Putin’s invasion is shining a light on an ugly side of French politics
As the fallout from Putin’s invasion continues, French presidential candidates who have previously been sympathetic to him…
Macron visit: how Paris is newly resurgent, despite Trump’s Jim
Australia is about to get a dose of French president Emmanuel Macron’s charm
French national elections mean Macron’s ‘revolution’ is now complete
The shorthand on June parliamentary elections in Europe looks like this: newly-elected French president, Emmanuel Macron, 350…
Will Macron’s fledgeling political movement break out and fly, or die in the egg?
Emmanuel Macron’s election will change Europe
Does the French presidential election, after the American one, confirm Friedrich Nietzsche’s assertion that “every profound spirit…
Emmanuel Macron is the moderate revolutionary France needs
The dominant sentiment is one of relief that centrist Emmanuel Macron has won through to the second…
The sorry spectacle of the French presidential election
TRIBUNE : PARIS, UN RÊVE AUSTRALIEN.
Face à l’enjeu électoral français, le journaliste australien, un temps expatrié en France, se souvient du jour…
French election: Fillon & Le Pen — a tale of moral laxity
A Shakespearian twist is required, perhaps, to comprehend the astonishing scenario of moral laxity and personal enrichment,…