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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How the far right seduced France’s Gen Z
Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella have the following of political rock stars.
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A reckoning for the Parisian elite
The French capital, once a seat of global power, has entered a new era of political and cultural upheaval.
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The roar from below
How Emmanuel Macron turned France to the hard right.
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Emmanuel Macron is gambling with France’s future – and Europe’s
The far right has his government under siege.
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Éric Hazan, rebel publisher
The leading French thinker has died aged 87. His cosmopolitan ease and intellectual industry is an example to the left.
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Why David Lammy is courting France
Labour is building deeper European relations in advance of a potential Trump victory this November.
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The end of progressive Macronism
Macron is beginning to resemble the right-wing authoritarians who oppose him.
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Searching for Frantz Fanon
Was the elusive revolutionary thinker naive, or ahead of his time?
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A country for young men
Gabriel Attal is France’s latest and youngest prime minister.
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Emmanuel Macron does not understand France
A leading French thinker on the forces of a new movement that is neither left nor right.
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Americans don’t belong in Europe
Henry James showed how the New World is incapable of understanding the Old World.
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The self-delusions of Nicolas Sarkozy
The former president still casts himself as the prophet of French conservatism. Historians will remember him as an enabler of…
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