The once influential second left in France has been eclipsed in the last generation by an older left still wedded to statist solutions. Henri Astier dissects this French exception, and
As France prepared to mark the anniversary of the riots that spread through its impoverished suburbs in October-November 2005, officials were braced for the worst. "Most of the conditions
Jean-François Revel, who died on Sunday 30 April at the age of 82, was not just the grand old man of French political literature; he was a leading exponent of
French pundits have begun speculating about the fallout from the sudden, humiliating withdrawal of the government's youth labour plan, the now-notorious contrat première embauche (CPE, or "first
France is undergoing another social convulsion, as hundreds of thousands of students and young people now joined by the children of immigrants from the deprived banlieues protest against a new
