After President Emmanuel Macron dissolved the National Assembly, the first round of the snap legislative elections took place on June 30. Historian Mathias Bernard analyses what’s at stake.
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French far-right party, the National Front, has taken a third of votes, nearly doubling its support from 2022.
Leftist and centrist parties will now try to coalesce behind each other’s candidates in order to prevent National Rally from securing an outright majority in parliament.
Whatever the outcome, the next government will likely be even weaker than the current one, precisely the situation President Emmanuel Macron had hoped to rectify.
Polling hasn’t improved for the UK’s Conservatives throughout the campaign. meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron appears to be heading for electoral disaster.
Macron has often referred to historian and ‘résistant’ Mark Bloch. As his dissolution of parliament opens the way to the far-right, might it be time he went back to reading him?
As young people despair that established parties can address their many concerns, far-right parties have found fertile political ground.
Julien Robin, a specialist in French parliamentary life, looks at what the surprise dissolution means for French politics.
Enviroment policies and executive roles now in the spotlight – while France faces a potentially divisive national election.
Even New Caledonia’s independence leaders have been unable to stop this latest spontaneous eruption of popular rage. France will have to compromise if there is to be a lasting solution.
The impact of the massive US aid package approved last month has yet to be felt on the battlefield.
Paris will be at the centre of the global sporting stage this summer.
Never before have four governments, including one of the regional leaders, Senegal, been simultaneously eager and ready to get out of the neo-colonial stranglehold of the CFA franc.
A selection of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
Sending ground troops to Ukraine could provoke a wider and vastly more dangerous war with Russia,
Four different prime minister in six years is unusual under France’s Fifth Republic. Managerial mechanics, absence of a majority and hyper-presidency: focus on the appointment of Gabriel Attal.
In the wake of France’s controversial immigration bill, one scholar compares France’s reliability on immigrant workers in key sectors against the rest of Europe.
With an eye to Kant’s work, a philosopher and a sociologist argue that the Uber project robs drivers of their dignity.
The transition to net zero emissions is under grave threat if governments do not do more to address the potential unfairness of some climate policies.
The Biden Administration’s signature climate legislation is unleashing a wave of clean energy investment, along with some opportunities and risks for countries like Australia.
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Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies, University of Nottingham
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Historien, Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)
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Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa and Assistant Professor in the History of International Relations, Utrecht University
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Professor of History, University of Michigan
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Professeure de management stratégique, directrice des programmes du MSc Arts & Creative Industries Management à Paris et de la partie française de l'Institut Franco-Chinois de Management des Arts et du Design à Shanghai, Kedge Business School
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Professor of Sociology, Cornell University
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