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

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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.

The campaign by Ségolène Royal to gain control of France's main opposition party has failed. But the search for a new style and model of politics in France will continue, says Patrice de Beer.