Macron cannot accept how impotent he has become
If Marine Le Pen wins power, much of the blame will fall on Macron
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University’s all French to me
Also this week: losing to my daughter, and puffed-out Paris policemen
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France and the UK are declining together
They’re in a worse state than my old Ford C-Max
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How to sell priceless stolen jewels
The Mona Lisa won fame by being stolen, but returned, will the same happen to the Louvre jewels?
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The hidden revolution in France
Underneath these impotent protests, power is moving from the metropolitan bubble to the angry margins
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A glimpse into fractured France
Andrew Hussey’s book on a “divided nation” veers too close to the personal over the political when diagnosing the Fifth…
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“Block Everything” takes France by storm
Angry protesters see this as a sequel to the gilets jaunes movement.
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France rejects the medicine of austerity
The collapse of the François Bayrou’s economic agenda has tipped the country into political crisis.
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Don’t tell Emmanuel Macron – but he’s a normal politician now
The president’s ambitions were Jupiterian. Now they lie in ashes.
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Alsace’s wines defy its turbulent history
The French region has overcome a legacy of religious and political conflict to compete with its highly regarded neighbours.
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The conviction of Marine Le Pen
Barred from public office for five years, France’s presidential front-runner is committed to fighting her prosecutor.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen, grandfather of the French far right
The extremist founder and former president of the National Front has died at 96.
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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.
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.
By Emmanuel Macron’s Fifth Republic is crumbling
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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