The French Dispatch
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Fact-based reporting and analysis of French, European, and wider global politics.
Paris, France
Joined September 2022
🇫🇷 While I’m Away: Macron Snubs Farage, EU Crisis Deepens, Russia Targets France.
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Post-American Europe, Part III: Building a Citadel of Freedom in a New Geopolitical Age. How the EU can lead through technological sovereignty, competition reform, and a renewed liberal order abroad.
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🇫🇷France is Russia’s “First Enemy in Europe”, Warns Military Chief in Rare Briefing.
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🇪🇺Von der Leyen Survives EU No-Confidence Vote Amid Growing Political Dissent. Backed by centrists and socialists, the Commission President remains in power, but fractures in her pro-European coalition raise questions about her future.
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How the EU’s rule-based governance offers a viable blueprint for global cooperation in an age of authoritarian resurgence.
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With few seats in Parliament, no coherent policy platform beyond his usual outrage machine, and no serious political capital in Europe, Farage is not being snubbed by Emmanuel Macron. He’s being treated according to his actual political relevance.
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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷. 𖣘Marine Le Pen launches Presidential campaign on Aircon.👮Rassemblement National targeted with new EU embezzlement case.☢️Macron threatens “retaliation” against Iran.✍️Jeunes Avec Macron changes name, not ideology.
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From medieval rivalry to the Pax Democratica: why Europe’s unique political ecology was always destined for integration, and why it must now defend that legacy alone.
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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷. 🙅 Bayrou’s conclave fails, triggers censure motion.❌Ciotti tries and fails to abolish immediate ineligibility.🛑Marine Le Pen rejects Trumps support.⬆️François Ruffin (re-)launches new party Debout!.
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Tensions mount within Von der Leyen’s centrist coalition as backlash grows over the withdrawal of the Green Claims Directive and looming EU budget disputes.
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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷. 👮François Fillon condemned to four years prison.🔗Guerriau accused once again.⛱Paris city hall in fight over terraces.
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What was the famous 18th June Appeal that forged Charles de Gaulle into a historic leader, and why did it change the course of the war?.
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As the UN marks 20 years of the Responsibility to Protect, its latest report urges the EU to close the gap between ideals and action on atrocity prevention. @VladanLausevic walks us through it.
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In a landmark visit to Nuuk, the French President pledges solidarity with Greenland and Denmark, defends Arctic sovereignty, and calls for climate action and strategic autonomy in the face of pressure.
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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷. 📝Final call for 2025 survey feedback!.🌹Olivier Faure re-elected as PS First Secretary.🇮🇱🇵🇸Macron brings together Israelis and Palestinians.🚫Sarkozy excluded from the Légion d’honneur.
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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷. ⚽Paris Saint-Germain win Champions League.🎤What a week - Blocks on Tariffs, Catalan and Budapest Pride.🇨🇳Emmanuel Macron challenges Xi Jinping and Israel.🏦France keeps AA- debt rating.
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Dave and Julien discuss the messy US Tariff court rulings, the Council blocking Spanish regional languages, Orban's Budapest pride ban, and Von der Leyen's Aachen speech.
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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷. ⚖️Philippe cleared on COVID governance.🇪🇺EU Council to discuss Hungary Article 7 procedure.🥊Fesneau accuses centre of betraying Macronism.🙅Attal distances Renaissance from Retailleau, defends veil ban for children.
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The EU Council will revisit the Article 7 case against Hungary on 27 May, as pressure mounts to uphold the rule of law and possibly suspend Budapest’s voting rights.
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