Emmanuel Macron has already been actively campaigning on the ground for weeks. But there is a video he should have refrain to give his voice to. According to most of the surveys, Macron’s party LREM…
The European Parliament has made a tremendous work on tax issues. The digital tax failed because member states lack political will. The European Parliament has a long tradition of extending its powers by grabbing new…
The French President calls for a “more protective, more pragmatic, more ambitious” Common Agricultural Policy. It won’t be enough to help the French farmers out of the crisis. The Paris International Agricultural Show is an…
Hard Brexit is a pain. But weakness in the middle of a hurricane may be much worse for the EU. Time for hope and last minute Brexit deals are nearly over in France, where businesses,…
A pan-European industrial project may remind citizens how concrete Europe can be when its forces are united. A couple of weeks after the European Commission blocked Alstom and Siemens mega-merger, Bruno Le Maire, the French…
Michel Barnier seems to have managed the tour de force of being someone who counts without heading a government or yelling at the EU. It’s even quite the opposite.
“Yellow vests” are so popular that it seems that anyone wearing it will be elected. But gathering sympathy is one thing, dealing with upset voters another. 13% of the votes: that’s what a “yellow vest”…
Back in 2016, I was invited to a cozy lunch at the British embassy in Paris, a few weeks before Brexit referendum. It was a half-British half-French assembly of well-positioned people. The discussion focused on…
In European politics it’s not that easy to determine who has won after a fight. Politicians tend to claim victory when they get back home – whatever the result. But at home, there is no…
It’s a story of love and hate between France and the EU. 60 %* of them love the euro and wouldn’t want to change it. 68 % think it’s a good thing to be in…
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