Primary elections in the US are like baseball or cheeseburgers: part of the culture and widely understood. Not so in France. Primaries – ie elections to elect a candidate - have a long and patchy history in France and mostly a dysfunctional one. Before th... See more
France says that it WILL send ships to escort tankers but only when the “hot phase” of the American-Israeli war with Iran is over. “France did not choose this war. We are not party to this conflict,” President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday. In a telepho... See more
Twenty-three years ago, France split the West. President Jacques Chirac refused to join the United States and Britain in their invasion of Iraq. His foreign minister Dominique de Villepin eloquently rejected the rationale for war in the United Nations. Pa... See more
Two weeks after his death, an obscure student has become the most significant figure in French politics. Quentin Deranque, 23, a Far Right activist, was beaten to death by Far Left militants in Lyon on February 12th. Film of his beating shows a vicious br... See more
The crisis is over. France does not yet have a state budget for this year but it will soon. The Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, was given little chance of survival, let alone finding a budget deal, when he was appointed for a second time in October. He... See more
