In the recent French elections, Emmanuel Macron won both the presidency and a large parliamentary majority for his party. Few had expected a year ago that Macron, a former economic minister, could stun the nation and secure this incredible mandate. At the beginning of the campaign, it was actually François Fillon of the conservative Republican […]
This article has been co-authored with Louis Rouanet. On Sunday, French voters headed to the polls to vote in the second round of the parliamentary elections. The political party of the new president Emmanuel Macron, La République En Marche, has won an absolute majority, distancing all his political rivals by a considerable share of the […]
On Sunday, French voters headed to the polls to vote in their second round of parliamentary elections. The first round saw large leads for La République En Marche, the brand new party of recently elected president Emmanuel Macron, which received 32.5 percent of the overall vote.
France is among the most strict European countries in the repression against drugs. As a result, the question about the real cost of this repression of illegal substances arises is a particularly pertinent one. For all those who do not want to make the effort of listening to me on why the War on Drugs […]
On Sunday, French voters headed to the polls to vote in the first round of the parliamentary elections. A month after the election of its new president Emmanuel Macron, succeeding the socialist François Hollande, the country chose to grant the new executive the necessary seats in the National Assembly in order to enact legislation. Macron’s […]
I had the pleasure to talk to Stephen Kent from the Young Voices podcast about the last tobacco regulations in the European Union.
Le 11 et le 18 juin marqueront une étape importante dans le parcours politique d’Emmanuel Macron: les Français décideront d’accorder ou non une majorité parlementaire au nouveau Président de la République française. La consigne de vote libérale est assez évidente.
When former French president François Hollande declared a state of emergency in November 2015, after the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris, the government was clear on its intentions. Former prime minister Manuel Valls recommended the country remain in the state of emergency until ISIS was defeated. By that standard, it’s going to be a long time before civil […]
On May 10th, the Conseil d’Etat, the highest administrative court in France, decided to ask for clarifications from the European Union Court of Justice regarding the recent EU Tobacco Products Directive.
This article has been translated into Czech for FinMag. The original can be read here. As this translation dates back to April, some number and situations might have changed since. Marine Le Penová je v druhém kole. Její kampaň se nápadně podobala kampani Donalda Trumpa: konfrontace s médii, odpor vůči přistěhovalcům, xenofobní výpady. Nechci ale […]
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