Macron rose to power as an anti-establishment politician but has he now gone too far.
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Saying the state upholds universal principles does not act as a safeguard against institutional discrimination and racism.
The brutal methods employed by the French police to maintain order during protests contrast with those of its European neighbours.
Publisher Ernest Moret was detained under terrorism powers for taking part in protests against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms.
While the scale of the strikes in both countries is historic, a scholar in employer relations notes the legislative conditions framing industrial action in the UK are much more restrictive.
Freshly re-elected in April, France’s president lost his parliamentary majority in June. So who is Emmanuel Macron and what defines his paradoxical politics?
Amid record abstention, the left-wing NUPES coalition performed well against the presidential coalition.
The next five years are going to be harder than Emmanuel Macron’s first term.
French voters face a stark choice at the polls, but many are saying ‘non’ to both candidates.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon was the great success story of the first round. The question now becomes – who gets his votes in the second?
While many progressive movements have organised online, conservatives dominate because of better organisation, capital, and social inequality. France’s presidential elections are a case in point.
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Charles de Gaulle created a system where a surprise candidate can upend the presidential elections in France. Will it happen in 2022?
A gap is widening between ordinary people and an elite they deem to be arrogant and disconnected from the realities French people face. In many minds, Macron epitomises this elite.
You can only properly translate French scatological swear words if you consider who is using them. In this case, the most powerful person in France.
No one is forcing people to use “iel” with a gun to their head. But paradoxically, by making the pronoun the focus of attention, critics are inevitably making it more popular.
The French commentator’s heritage is providing a useful patina for extreme views.
Zemmour’s statements about universalism, assimilation and “separatism” have deep roots in the history of the French Republic.
Recent polemical debates over French rappers Youssoupha and Médine show that rap is still not accepted by the political mainstream.
The south-eastern region of France known as PACA has long been a centre of power for the far-right, but recent failures in the regional elections bring its future into question for Marine Le Pen.
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Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Politics & Co-Director, Aston Centre for Europe, Aston University
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Bath
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Senior Teaching Fellow in French Studies, University of Warwick
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Head of Department Politics, Languages and International Studies - Senior Lecturer in French and European Politics, University of Bath
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Professor in French and European Politics, UCL
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Docteure sciences politiques, HDR sciences de gestion, Kedge Business School
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Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Edinburgh
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Associate Professor of Employment Relations, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
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Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Mangement and Organisation Studies, The Open University
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Professor, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics at Maastricht School of Management and Jean Monnet Chair, Technical University of Cologne
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
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Lecturer, Department of French, University of Cambridge
