A new government won’t fix France’s political crisis
The country’s malaise is grinding, long-term and has few exit routes.
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France’s centre has collapsed, is the UK’s next?
The team answer listener questions.
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Donald Trump’s continental system
For all their faults, Emmanuel Macron and Giorgia Meloni are the few EU politicians prepared for the US president’s return.
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Following the no-confidence vote in Michel Barnier’s government, can the president survive this political crisis?
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France’s budget turmoil reveals an EU damaged by Brexit
During its membership, the UK exerted a disproportionately strong influence on EU legislation, often in subtle ways.
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Will the crisis in France be the end of Macron?
A row over the budget could see total governmental collapse
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Is the French government about to collapse?
These are the last days of the Macron project.
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France’s hollow Islamist reckoning
Emmanuel Carrère found a story of liberal renewal in the country’s 2015 terrorism attacks. But is it true?
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The atrocity exhibition
Over a single night in 2015, terrorists killed 130 people in Paris. In Emmanuel Carrère’s account of the ensuing trial,…
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Why Gisèle Pelicot is a hero
The horror of the mass rape trial in France has shaken the world.
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The unspeakable horror of the Pelicot rape case
When monstrosities like the Dominique Pelicot case are revealed, the general love I feel for men seems suddenly starkly absurd.
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Ursula von der Leyen is damaging EU unity
The European Commission president has let a personal rivalry sour the relationship between Germany and France.
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Can Michel Barnier save Emmanuel Macron?
The French president’s calculation may appease Marine Le Pen but it risks mutiny on the left.
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Has the French civil war crossed the Channel?
French rioters have ballot-box representation; English rioters have no leader.
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Marc Bloch: a warning from Europe’s past
According to Emmanuel Macron, the best analysis of the dangers facing the continent today comes from a French historian who…
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The crisis of the two presidents
Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron have come to personify the chaos of the countries they seek to rule.
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France’s Liz Truss moment is yet to come – and it may be worse
Fights over the budget and a growing debt problem promise a difficult autumn.
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Can France’s anti-Le Pen alliance survive?
Political chaos, confusion and incompetence are almost inevitable after no single grouping wins a parliamentary majority.
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The Macron era is over
The success of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France’s parliamentary elections has annihilated the president’s power base.
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A staggering first-round victory for Marine Le Pen
Emmanuel Macron’s political gamble has backfired.
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