A year of crises for Macron: Pension reform, protests in the banlieues and the immigration law
The French president opens 2024 with fractures within his government and the challenge of defeating the far right in the European elections in June
Do tough immigration policies represent a victory for the extreme right, or are they the antidote to extremism?
New deportation laws in the EU and debates about immigration in the United Kingdom and the United States will mark the 2024 election calendar. Nationalists and populists appear to be advancing their agenda in the West
Macron’s controversial immigration law gets passed despite rare internal dissent
The bill received favorable votes in parliament from the far-right National Rally, putting France’s centrist president in an uncomfortable position
There’s no extremist wave hitting democracies: it’s a steady undercurrent
The electoral victories of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands and Javier Milei in Argentina are the latest episodes in a phenomenon that started with Trump and reflects lasting social changes
Testosterone and its metaphors
Contrary to what history dictates, political power is better in women’s hands. But it’s not just political power; economic power can also be part of the conversation
Milei’s denialism of the dictatorship fails to garner support in Argentine barracks
The current military, trained under democracy, has distanced itself from the rhetoric promoted by the far-right presidential candidate and his running mate Victoria Villarruel
Paris museum seeks to tell the story of how immigration shaped modern France
The new exhibition at the French National Immigration History Museum, which reopened in June, seeks to provoke reflection on French identity in a context of the rise of the extreme right
‘Preferendum:’ Macron’s innovative solution to move France beyond political crisis
The French president met with the leaders of opposition parties in search of specific agreements and proposed a series of referendums with multiple questions
President of French National Assembly: ‘The far right’s ideas remain as radical as ever, we must not drop our guard’
Elected head of France’s lower house a year ago, Yaël Braun-Pivet says the chief opposition party’s ideas must be combated, but underscores that its lawmakers ‘have their place in this institution’ because they were placed there by voters
Philosopher Edgar Morin, at the age of 101: ‘Whenever I’m possessed by the force of life, the specter of death recedes’
In a conversation with EL PAÍS, the great French thinker reflects on existence and invites us to cultivate the poetic side of living. He has just published a ‘dissident’ book on the war in Ukraine and has two more works forthcoming in the summer
Macron dogged by protests after signing French pension reform into law
The president is trying to soothe tensions by Bastille Day in July, but judging by the demonstrations so far, it will be a difficult feat to achieve
Marine Le Pen: ‘If Russia wins the war, it will be catastrophic... if Ukraine wins, it will mean WWIII has been unleashed’
The leader of the National Rally, once rejected as a far right pariah, feels closer than ever to the French presidency. Has the pension reform crisis given wings to her movement, based on nationalism and rejection of immigration?
Le Pen’s far-right launches campaign against Swiss artist’s ‘pedo-pornographic’ Ukraine war work
The National Rally is spearheading a movement against Miriam Cahn, whose painting ‘Fuck Abstraction’ has already resulted in a court case as critics claim it depicts a minor engaged in a sex act
Laurent Berger, leader of France’s top union: ‘The Le Pen rocket has lifted off; now we have to prevent it from going into orbit’
The general secretary of the CFDT is calling on the French government to pause its controversial pension reform, warning that the conflict is turning into a democratic crisis
Macron’s leadership at risk amid tensions over pension plan
His brazen move to force a pension reform bill through without a vote has infuriated the political opposition
Le Pen emerges as political winner in battle for pensions in France
‘There will be a democratic problem if the reform is approved like this,’ Laurent Berger – the leader of France’s largest union – tells EL PAÍS