france politics

Phew ! I mean he was absolutely the lesser of two evils, but the lesser by a considerable margin. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61209058

French President Emmanuel Macron will propose new rules cracking down on fake news during elections this year, he said in an annual speech to the press today. https://www.politico.eu/pro/macron-proposes-new-law-against-fake-news/ Yummy, truth tribunals

And now the fun begins. What Macron has to avoid is becoming panicked, when, as seems inevitable, the left opposition takes to the streets. Trying to cower the government with that tactic goes back to the French Revolution...and worked until Napoleon's "Whiff of Grapeshot",

There's not much about this in mainstream media yet, so I post one of the few English articles I found on that. There are warnings not to disseminate the leaked data (which came out midnight in the night from Friday to Saturday, just as the French news blackout regarding the election came into...

Five weeks before the first round, this year's French presidential election promises to be like none before it. For the first time in the history of the 5th republic, it may well be that the two main political blocks will both be thrown out during the first round. Current polling indeed has far...

Some joker in France have put 500 posters to ask Obama as president of France. http://us.cnn.com/2017/02/24/europe/france-obama-17-president-trnd/index.html Normally I would laugh, but seeing the grim list of candidate we'll have... I can't help to think he would be IMO the best of the crop.

"A bit" underreported, in France a third of gas stations are in immediate danger of running out of fuel, electricity blackouts have already happened in medium size infrastructure, all over a neoliberal law about "reform" of working rights that wants to impose on the French people what most...

This points to, I think, a good thing about the French electoral process: it's a two-round system. Last week, these were the headlines: Le Pen Scores Historic Victory in France's Regional Elections Is France going fascist? Extreme-right National Front is now the most popular party As you can...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn (once a maybe candidate for the French Presidency), on trial for 'aggravated pimping' - "The prosecution gives the impression of unbridled activity," he told the court. But, he added: "There were only 12 parties in total - that is four per year over three years." He...

"Both men lit their first Gauloises at 12pm yesterday and will spend 48 hours chain-smoking under lampposts while wearing hats and trenchcoats." It's true. Source

So, who will win? Who should win? Will it make any difference? I tend to think that Hollande has better ideas for solving the euro zone debt crisis. But it may not matter because Merkel and Draghi are opposed to these ideas.

I'm reading that there are protests in France over raising the retirement age from 60 to 62. To an American this sounds crazy. I'm assuming it's not crazy though. I mean, if I knew more about the situation maybe I'd still think that they should raised the retirementa age but at least I've...

Interesting article here on French anti terrorism efforts. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37118405/ns/world_news-washington_post/page/2/ What I found to be of interest in the linked article was how the French approach to anti-terrorism was, for the most part, done without making a lot of noise...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580405,00.html?test=latestnews Wow. First Switzerland's referendum and now this. Maybe Europe IS at war with Islam after all. :(

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D98VP85G1&show_article=1 I'm personally a little torn on this one. I think burqas/niqabs/etc. are ridiculous - literally, worthy of ridicule. It's absurd to tell women to cover themselves up so that they don't "shame themselves" or incite a man's lust...

In an attempt to rid it's country from the control of Zionist Lobby Groups and organizations, France has launched it's new Anti Zionist Political Party called "Parti Anti Sioniste." Below are the parties goals taken from a translated page: To eliminate the Zionist interference in the affairs of...

So why did the french colonialism cause the Vietnam War since Vietnam was a colony of France? Second is it true that France left Vietnam because they needed more troops to keep their other colony Algeria since Algeria was also a colony of France? :mad:

Read the Guardian article From the link: "Mr Chirac is immune from prosecution or even questioning while head of state." Are you kidding me?!? And the French have the nerve to criticize President Bush?!?

Blow to France's 35-hour week law Can france withstand the pressures of international competition? And it looks like Germany is already on the path to end it's law. Is it realistic for governments to make such laws?

Mitterrand, Chirac, now Cresson Former French premier charged with fraud

http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/2/21/110312 I hope the French people are armed. It sounds like their oppresive goverment is growing out of control.

NOTE: THIS IS POSTED PURELY FOR THE "AMUSEMENT" VALUE -- this was floating around Washington, D.C. emails today, I thought it amusing in a blind-nationalist sort of way.... French Military Prowess Revisited By Anonymous From the Net | February 10, 2003 President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld...