In the last days of 2005, leading thinkers and scholars from around the world share their fears, hopes and expectations of 2006. As Isabel Hilton asks: What does 2006 have in store? (Part one)
What do the following people have in common:
* the French president Jacques Chirac
* his prime minister, Dominique de Villepin
* his socialist ex-prime minister, Lionel Jospin
* the head of Euronext, which
It seems that the third week of November may bring a levelling down of the explosion in Frances banlieues (deprived suburbs). After eighteen nights of riots involving the burning
A week after the riots in the Lozells area of Birmingham, England, between people of African-Caribbean descent and those of Asian origin, the northeast Paris banlieues (suburbs) of Clichy-sous-Bois and
Politics has long been considered a French national sport, in a country where political opinions and parties can be counted in dozens. We French pride ourselves of our great historical
The inconclusive German elections of 18 September resulted into an unforeseen political mess. After two weeks of intense manoeuvring and negotiation, no stable majority appears in sight outside of a
In the last few months, sixty-six persons, many of them of African origin, have died in Paris and its suburbs when the slums, run-down hotels or fire-hazard buildings where they
Whatever its failures, misgivings and contradictions, Europe probably didnt deserve the political tsunami created by the French referendum which, on Sunday 29 May, rejected decisively the treaty establishing a
The US administration doesnt understand, or doesnt want to admit, that the French President speaks for 80 per cent of Europeans who are expressing their opposition to a
The lengthy negotiations leading to Security Council Resolution 1441 were a success for French diplomacy. Frances two-step approach may not avert war on Iraq; but in deflecting the United
