Patrice de Beer is former London and Washington correspondent for Le Monde.

Recent articles

Nicolas Sarkozy’s accumulation of power and personalisation of politics leave him exposed when things go wrong, says Patrice de Beer.

The European elections in France are the story of a rearmed right, lost left, and broken centre. But Dany Cohn-Bendit’s creative pro-European ecologists pierce the gloom, says Patrice de Beer.

The noble principles on which modern France was founded are in trouble. But the effort to give them new life is underway, says Patrice de Beer.

A young French development economist is reinvigorating her profession by pioneering new anti-poverty strategies focused on experiment and evaluation, finds Patrice de Beer. 

The embrace of an "anti-capitalist" option is symptom of rather than escape from France's exhausted politics, says Patrice de Beer.