"Finally, a technocrat. Let's hope he won't blow the chance", a friend reacted to Emmanuel Macron's election in France. Indeed, his victory over the much bigger evil Le Pen seemed like good news, and a breath of fresh air. But is it really? Let's dig a bit deeper into this.

When French journalist Olivier Tonneau of The Guardian described on his ( Read more... )

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/06/emmanuel-macron-targeted-by-hackers-on-eve-of-french-election

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39827244

Is the only way to stop this sort of thing from affecting the voting population a proper education? The mixing of the real and the fabricated in these releases leaks means that separating the ( Read more... )

New drama in the French elections as Penelope-gate moves into full swing.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/27/penelope-gate-casts-dark-shadow-over-fillons-presidential-prospectsAnd if the centre-right are trumped now I wonder which candidate will step into the fray to rescue the slightly over three-quarters of French folk who think that ( Read more... )

It's kind of surprising that the French conservatives have figured Francois Fillon exists just now, because now in hindsight (granted), he matches the current political situation in France quite nicely, when you think of it. The former prime-minister is the perfect presidential candidate: socially orientated, yet conservative, staunch Catholic, ( Read more... )

"Let's be blunt about it. If you support the burkini ban, you're not a feminist or a secularist, you're a misogynistic bigot."OK, I admit I got grumpy putting this article together, but seriously I got tired pretty fast with people trying to tell me that Muslim women don't get to choose even in liberal democracies what clothing they wear, or if ( Read more... )

It's worth bringing up a dirty little politically incorrect secret here.

( Where and when it all began )

The year is 2017. In the White House, president Donald Trump is preparing his promised bill on barring Muslims from entering the US. Meanwhile, in the Elysee Palace, president Marine Le Pen is announcing a referendum for a Frexit, and reversion to the franc.

Sure, sounds like a mere (dys)topia. But the fact that both Trump and Le Pen are the ( Read more... )

After watching this movie produced by BBC and Shaista Aziz "A nation divided? A Charlie Hebdo aftermath", the first thing that came into my mind, was that France is not what you know from the social media and movies. Unfortunately not. France is a country strongly divided into one biggest french speaking, born in France and looking french group and ( Read more... )