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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Three searing indictments of France and counting
Bastille Day 2020, with its carefully selected group of health workers, shows who is in and who out.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Macron's green-washing
How politicians play footsie with the public’s hopes and hide their inaction behind mountains of vague promises.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Covid-19 and the surge of the antiracist movement in France
Under the impulse of the Justice and Truth for Adama committee, the fight against racism may be at a turning point in France.
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightJean Raspail, right wing prophet of ‘identity politics’ has died
Raspail’s influence has expanded beyond the small world of the radical right.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What does it mean to be 'in crisis'?
What does it mean for the world of neoliberal capitalism and liberal democracy to be in crisis?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?France: how come the Black Bloc never get arrested?
Sometimes what doesn’t happen is as important as what does.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?France is free to demonstrate again – well, nearly
“ The rally on the afternoon of Saturday 13 June was intended to proceed from La République to the Opéra… we were...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Re-looking and revaluing health, post-COVID in France
“We are confident that a significant majority thinks that the health service should be a properly-funded public one,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?France gives a little over George Floyd
“That excruciating eight and a half minute long video of George Floyd's slow, gasping passage from life to oblivion...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The unique experience of St Nazaire
France will be hit hard for its loyalty to the resource-guzzling monsters of modern industrialism.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Amazon France
Amazon is a company in expansion. Not only does it not pay proper taxes in France, but it knows how to use public...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?France: handling the abuse of power in the coronavirus epidemic
The Conseil has sided with the authorities in most of its decisions since the start of the lockdown. But not on drones.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?If Europe is forged in crisis, Italy has something to say
As the Italian case suggests, addressing the democratic deficit of European institutions is critical if we are to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Understanding the endogenous nature of this health crisis
Why was the 2008 financial crisis able to erase the health security imperative recognized in the years 2005 -2007?...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Has the French President done his bit?
You do not interview Macron. That is not his style, not how he does ‘presidential’. The show is his to control, not yours.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Understanding the State of Law, French-style
It is part of the Jupiterian approach that dominates the relationship between citizen and authority in the French...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightWill France's Marine Le Pen be a profiteer or victim of the pandemic?
Is it reasonable to expect that the radical populist right is going to make somewhat of a comeback after the...
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Published in: HomeHow the tiny coronavirus makes the world’s mightiest navy pointless
Warships are a hotbed of infection. And in the pandemic, even healthy military can do little. Will it make us...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?France’s Far West: don’t let you take my kindness for weakness
“ The right does not intend that the ‘after Covid’ should correct the mistakes of the ‘before’.”
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Clapping for anti-modernism and nationalist submission
Dissident remarks on the current period.