Will French voters be revolted by the new popular front?
I’ll predict that French voters know that there are extremists running for the Assembly — and they are in the NFP
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Wednesday
Tuesday
Kylian Mbappé's veiled Le Pen warning won't save Macron
Actors, influencers and sports stars have been urging their compatriots to steer clear of the National Rally
Monday
Anti-Semitism has returned to French politics
Let’s hope Ukraine’s allies keep their commitments so that this resistant, isolated nation may eventually prevail
Friday
Can Macron still outplay Le Pen?
The French president entered office styling himself as Jupiter. He has become Saturn, devouring his children
Thursday
Expect tension and clashes at Italy's G7 summit
This year’s session, which begins today, will entail a significant amount of weighty business
Monday
The truth about the rise of the ‘far right’ in Europe
How do things look now? Same as they did before
Macron is trying to scare French voters into rejecting Le Pen's party
These European election results are a severe personal defeat for the French president
The European elections and the ascent of the right
The general political direction of the continent is clear after the weekend’s EU elections
Thursday
King Charles’s deeply moving D-Day speeches
The monarch spoke, intelligently and affectingly, about how D-Day represented the finest hour that Churchill had promised his people
Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella are slowly conquering France
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally – formerly the National Front – is expected to triumph for a third time running in the European elections this weekend. The party topped the poll last time, in 2019, and in 2014. But its principal candidate, five years ago and today, is not the 55-year-old Le Pen but the youthful Jordan Bardella, whose story tells us a lot about the changing nature of the French right. The son of Italian immigrants, Bardella, 28, grew up on a housing estate in Seine-Saint-Denis, an impoverished area north of Paris. While Le Pen appeals to the middle-aged electorate, Bardella is the star attraction for younger voters. French
Wednesday
The political appropriation of D-Day
The Normandy American Cemetery will be closed to the public on Wednesday and Thursday
Monday
Macron is to blame for France's dismal economy
The S&P downgrade, in conjunction with humiliation on June 9, will handicap him in his cherished EU
Tuesday
France has become Europe’s Wild West
It’s not much fun being a Parisian these days unless, of course, you’re a person of importance who has private transport and a security detail
Friday
Why Le Pen is happy to cut ties with the AfD
Germany has dominated the EU since its inception, and their weak and inept leadership has angered and embittered voters across the bloc
Friday
Why Beijing's nickname for France's president is 'Macaron'
Putin, Xi and Azerbaijan all stand to gain from unrest on the Pacific island
Saturday
What Xi wants in Europe
As Beijing loses support in the rest of Europe, those countries that remain loyal are lavishly rewarded
The bizarre sexual politics of the French
Emmanuel Macron is demanding that his compatriots counteract a catastrophically collapsing birth rate
Tuesday
Macron is deluded if he thinks he can persuade Xi to change
Will the French president’s realpolitik pay dividends?
Monday
Draft dodgers are undermining Ukraine's plea for help
Imagine the reaction in a NATO state if their soldiers were sent to fight for a country whose own young men are too feckless to take up arms against their invader
Tuesday
Why Emmanuel Macron wants to give nukes to the EU
Instrumentalizing France’s nuclear weapon is fraught with uncertainty