Six cautionary lessons from Macron’s France
Maybe this new-party-with-a-charismatic-leader thing isn’t as easy as people imagined.
Posts Tagged: Nicolas Sarkozy
Mohammed Amin: Integration advice for French Muslims – sing La Marseillaise, simplify your name and learn chess
Become educated, dress like you belong and join a political party.
Watch out for this weekend’s French Republican primary
Its winner may well face Marine Le Pen in next year’s presidential showdown
Garvan Walshe: After Trump, will Le Pen be next?
The polls predict a comfortable win for her opponent. But this far out the polls also predicted Remain and Clinton would win.
Olivier Guitta: Why Obama has been a recruiting sergeant for ISIS
His failure to act against Assad helped to persuade young Sunni Muslims that he is against them.
Iain Dale: Short-tempered Corbyn’s mask is slipping
Plus: Will diehard Remainers never learn how democracy works? Nicolas Sarkozy is a sh*t. And, wonder of wonders, a right wing BBC audience.
The shadow of Le Pen could paralyse French politics
If the major parties are locked together to keep the Front National out, neither can challenge a decaying consensus which is failing France.
Bernard Jenkin MP: “There are no votes in defence.” Or so they say…
The two battered main parties would do well to speak honestly about the challenges and costs we face.
Andrea Leadsom MP: Chancellor Merkel’s visit gave me great hope for the prospect of EU reform
It is clear that there is widespread and growing acceptance of the need for the EU to change, and change in the way we want.
A French lesson for Miliband as Hollande embraces austerity
The Labour leader praised France’s President for showing “different way forward”. But it didn’t work – and is now being abandoned.
Austerity-sceptic Hollande wins in France — and anti-austerity parties gain in Greece
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter. BIFF! France has elected a Socialist president on a massive turnout (81.5% certainly shames… Read more »
The banal truth about the French election
British observers of the French presidential contest don’t seem overly impressed by the choice on offer. John Kay is no… Read more »
Prospect of President Hollande and collapse of Dutch government raise new questions about €urozone’s future
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter. Le Pen won 20% of the vote, the left-wing firebrand Melenchon won 11.7% and… Read more »
Hardline on terror and promise to balance budget are big themes of soaring Sarkozy
A Channel 4 report: The latest opinion polls suggest Sarkozy's 10% deficit in the first round of voting has been… Read more »