Emmanuel Macron’s success validates a strategy aimed at making him appear as the champion of the “progressives”, but it has only partially worked.
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A look back at the distinguished career of the former president, an ardent defender of France’s place in the world.
Social democratic parties across the continent are struggling for different reasons. They can learn from each other to bounce back.
France’s two presidential candidates diverge markedly on many issues, but nothing is as divisive as France’s relationship with the EU.
With just 6% of the vote, the French socialist party of outgoing president François Hollande came a distant fifth in the French election.
Just a month after moving into the Élysée Palace, the new president will face the country’s parliamentary elections.
He ran the show at COP21 but the man who once became France’s youngest Prime Minister is not what the country needs in 2017.
In late February 2014, it was discovered that Nicolas Sarkozy’s close aide during his presidency, Patrick Buisson, had secretly recorded hundreds of hours of conversations with the then-president and others…
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has a tight fight on his hands. He’ll be taking on the Socialist Party’s Francois Hollande in the elections next year. And he could struggle to get a second term. Four…
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