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Emmanuel Macron wants to try again. By tapping François Bayrou as prime minister on Friday, France’s president hopes to retain power via…
Harrison Stetler
Harrison Stetler is a freelance journalist and teacher based in Paris.
The Nouveau Front Populaire has officially been born. On Thursday evening, France’s four leading left-wing forces finalized a wide-ranging alliance aimed at…
Recognition of Palestinian statehood has long been one of the fault lines of global politics. In fact, the main Western powers are…
After ratcheting up pressure on Hungary in recent weeks, European leaders have convinced premier Viktor Orbán to stop blocking a crucial extension…
Immigrant activists and their allies in France have gained some rare breathing room. On Thursday the Constitutional Council, the body tasked with…
It’s a partial victory for France’s Palestine solidarity movement. On Wednesday, the State Council — France’s highest administrative court — rejected Interior…
This Tuesday, Nahel, a seventeen-year-old of Franco-Algerian origin, was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in the…
It’d been hanging over France’s retirement reform fight from the beginning — a reminder that, come hell or high water, President Emmanuel…
A strike paralyzing France’s oil refineries is developing into a national crisis, days after a state order this Tuesday commanding an end…