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.
Members of the far-right group Nordic Resistance Movement march in Helsinki on Dec. 6, 2017, during centennial festivities of Finnish independence.
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French far-right party, the National Front, has taken a third of votes, nearly doubling its support from 2022.
Macron heads to the stage to deliver a speech on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the World War II “D-Day” Allied landings in Normandy.
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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?
Félicien Faury, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) – Université Paris-Saclay
For the far-right party’s voters, school is a source of concern and mistrust and also a key to understanding its success among women and voters with few qualifications.
Marine Le Pen delivers a speech next to National Rally president Jordan Bardella after the first results of the European elections.
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British progressive economists such as Barbara Wootton and William Beveridge locked horns with Friedrich Hayek over their vision of a European federation.
Heavily influenced by the spa towns of Germany and Austria, Vichy is one of France’s most famous spa retreats in France.
France’s approach to thermal medicine is more than just day at the spa. Instead, the country’s practice of “thermalism” is medically recognised and state reimbursed.
Big Pharma is not necessarily incompatible with climate goals.
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Laïcité, which historically upheld individual freedom, denies minority rights today, as seen in the ban on French athletes wearing hijabs at the 2024 Paris Olympics.