This is the second of four articles by students on France’s presidential election. By Snow Guilfoyle “Mais c’est n’importe quoi!” I shouted across the dinner table. After nine months in France, I had come to embrace the nation’s...
Emmanuel Macron as French president proves that embracing Europe and globalization need not be a political death wish. But he must deliver. French President-elect Emmanuel Macron celebrates on the stage at his victory rally near the Louvre in Paris, France, 7 May...
By Emma Bapt For the first time on Sunday morning, I voted in France’s presidential elections. I was filled with pride, a heavy sense of responsibility and, ultimately, anxiety. My mother and I walked to our local polling station in Saint Germain-en-Laye, a suburb to...
By Robert Holloway The first round of France’s two-tier presidential election has left voters to choose between two political outsiders whose views could not be more starkly opposed: Emmanuel Macron, a pro-European centrist, and the leader of the far-right National...
Populist opponents of the European Union are fired up, EU supporters more complacent. Impassioned euro-skeptics will cause the EU to collapse. “The collapse of the EU,” by Yesenia Mozo This is the second of three articles on the European Union by students in the...