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The elections for the eurodeputies, held among all the member states on June 9, 2024, did not greatly change the composition of the European Parliament.  Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, proclaimed that “the center held,” and that was true.  If the …

In the first hours after the assault, the major French newspapers covered the Hamas attack against Israel in much the same way that the US newspapers did: updates, casualty estimates, and speculations about the intelligence failures.  On October 9, the French government, along with the …

 A few days ago, on June 21, Emmanuel Macron hinted that he would welcome an invitation to the BRICS summit, to be held this year in South Africa.  What does that have to do with the chaos in Russia on June 24?  The whole episode, …

The Report on Russia of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament was released  on July 21, 2020–four years after the Brexit vote, and only about three months before the US presidential election.  It was deliberately brief (roughly fifty pages), a choice the committee made …

The National Assembly Commission on the Political, Economic, and Financial Interference by Foreign Powers . . . with the Purpose of Influencing or Corrupting Opinion, Leaders, and French Political Parties, just ended its work. It was preceded by commissions in other countries and the EU: …

Andréa Kotarac, LFI, tweeted his support for Jordan Bardella’s list (RN) for the European Parliament on May 14, 2019.  He then announced it on television, stating that “It’s the Left that changed,” and accusing Mélenchon’s Left of “Islamogauchisme” (a pro-Islamic stance). Where should he go …

One of the most surprising party switches in recent years was the decision of Andrea Kotarac, in 2019, to move from La France Insoumise, the far-left party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, to Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National.  To be sure, his move seemed to support the …

Heetch began in Paris as a niche ride-sharing business: featuring young drivers, it operated only late at night and early into the morning on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.  The name came from “hitch,” as in hitchhike, pronounced as the French would pronounce it.[1] The …

The protest at Sainte-Soline on March 25, 2023, was planned by three environmental and  peasant/farmer groups (peasant is a term defiantly preferred by some): Bassines non merci, Confédération paysanne, and Les Soulèvements de la Terre. Bassines non merci! (bassines, no thanks!) describes its mission as …

The demonstrations at Sainte-Soline failed.  That is the inevitable conclusion as we see the coverage of the event monopolized by its violence–by the police, on one side; by the “ultra-left” on the other.  The conservative Valeurs actuelles opined, before the event, that “antifa” members were …