French voters have rejected Le Pen’s message twice already. Her youthful deputy may be a better bet in 2027.
- Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Politics, Aston University
The far-right looks like it will be a significant parliamentary force in France over the next few years.
Mohamed Amra is linked to organised crime in the southern city of Marseille.
París, Lyon, Marsella, Toulouse… Algunos suburbios de las grandes ciudades francesas sufren desde hace décadas la peor marginalización de Europa. La ira de la banlieue no encuentra soluciones políticas.
I’ve interviewed disaffected people across French suburbs. Their anger has been mounting for years.
Brexit and Boris Johnson caused tension but France and the UK are getting back on track.
The future of Nato, relations with China and cooperation over energy were all on the table as well as international trade.
France faces multiple problems at home and on the world stage.
The French president continues to talk to Vladimir Putin but he doesn’t appear to have made much difference to the conflict so far.
Conspiracy theories about mobile phone technology have been circulating since the 1990s and the imagined potential of radio waves to remote control a population.
Les Bleus pourraient être l’idéal de l’intégration à la française : or la fabrique ethnique de l’équipe nationale a été minutieusement décortiquée et jaugée à l’aune d’un racisme à peine dissimulé.
When France won the world cup in 1998, the team was celebrated for its multiculturalism. What has happened since?
Il y a un an, un incendie ravageait la tour Grenfell à Londres. Plutôt que céder à l’islamophobie, Twitter a réagi, valorisant les actes héroïques des résidents de confession musulmane.
A new analysis of 44,000 tweets reveals that fake news isn’t always persuasive.
L’incendie de la tour Grenfell à Londres a fait 79 morts. Au Royaume-Uni comme en Europe, les politiques de rénovation urbaine, trop complexes, ne permettent pas aux habitants d’être en sécurité.
As fire tore through Grenfell Tower, I witnessed the complete and terrible destruction of 120 homes just like the one I grew up in.
Reforming France’s intelligence and policing practices will be a big political battle.
Boots on the ground, schools on high alert and more hostility toward Muslims and migrants – this is daily life for Parisians.
Local collaborations between the fiercely secular state and religious groups have a long history.
The people who killed a priest in Rouen were driven by a warped agenda, not their social and economic backgrounds.
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