2017 French Presidential Election: De Gaulle Would Not Be Impressed Mary Thieffry Apr 5, 2017 Since its beginnings, Charles de Gaulle's Fifth Republic has seen an alternating succession of mainstream…
Justice: The New Antagonist of Anti-Establishment Politics Théophile Vareille Mar 10, 2017 The leader of France’s National Front, Marine Le Pen, has found both a new antagonist in the judicial system and a…
Macron, Colonisation et Confusion Camille Labat Feb 28, 2017 Emmanuel Macron, candidat centriste à l'élection présidentielle française, était en voyage à Alger ces 13 et 14…
François Fillon: Another Le Pen? Another Trump? Hardly. Koji Shiromoto Jan 25, 2017 Last November the entire political scene was left absolutely stunned as the electorate made itself heard and…
Contagious Illiberalism: The Normalization of France’s Far-Right Discourse Gabrielle Denis Dec 13, 2016 Paris was well worth a mass in 1593. Is the Elysée palace worth the diffusion of illiberal discourses and a return…
The Scattered French Left Anonymous Dec 5, 2016 “Today, I am conscious of the risks that would arise from an approach, such as mine, that would not gather up to…
Fillon Did It. Now What? Anonymous Nov 28, 2016 François Fillon (Les Républicains/LR) has now become the official conservative candidate for the 2017 French…
Another Fracture, This Time in France Anonymous Nov 26, 2016 Brexit, President-elect Trump and now François Fillon in the front row since the first round of the French…
A Trump Effect in France? Anonymous Nov 19, 2016 In North America and in France, it seems that we have come to a dramatic shift in politics. Indeed,…
French 2017 Elections: Terrorism, Prisons and Justice Anonymous Oct 18, 2016 At last, a consensus! Apparently, the republican candidates for the French primaries agree on one thing: the vital…