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Behind France's political crisis, the arrogance of an increasingly isolated Macron

French President Emmanuel Macron has reappointed his close ally Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, just five days after the latter resigned from the post. The future of his minority government, th…

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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · 3d

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The shadow of the far-right RN hanging over terrorist cases in France

A Mediapart investigation has revealed that at least nine men convicted of, or awaiting trial for, far-right terrorism-related offences in France have either held positions of responsibility within …

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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · 5d

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Former Israeli PM Ehud Barak on why 'there is no other solution but two states'

In an interview with Mediapart, former Israeli prime minister and ex-chief of general staff of the country's military, Ehud Barak, details his view of the so-called Trump plan for an end to the war …

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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · 6d

Chaos as under-pressure Macron clings on to the PM who quit just hours after naming government
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Chaos as under-pressure Macron clings on to the PM who quit just hours after naming government

France's prime minister Sébastien Lecornu handed in his resignation on Monday morning just a few hours after announcing his team of government ministers. Caught off-guard by Lecornu's surprise actio…

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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · 6d

French politics stares into the abyss as new PM quits hours after naming his government
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French politics stares into the abyss as new PM quits hours after naming his government

France's prime minister Sébastien Lecornu handed in his resignation on Monday morning just a few hours after announcing his team of government ministers. Caught off guard by Lecornu's surprise actio…

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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · 8d

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The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior: how a state-sponsored crime went unpunished

In July 1985, the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior was bombed and sunk in the New Zealand port of Aukland, when one of the NGO’s photographers was drowned, in an operation by France's forein inte…

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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · 9d

French TV personality and psychoanalyst Gérard Miller faces criminal probe over rape and sexual assault
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French TV personality and psychoanalyst Gérard Miller faces criminal probe over rape and sexual assault

The well-known psychoanalyst and broadcaster Gérard Miller was formally placed under investigation on October 2nd, in connection with four allegations of rape – three involving minors – and two clai…

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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · 10d

France and the US lack 'political will' to fight corruption says former judge Eva Joly
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France and the US lack 'political will' to fight corruption says former judge Eva Joly

A former investigating judge specializing in financial crime, Eva Joly also stood as the green candidate in the 2012 presidential election in France. Here she tells Mediapart of her concern at the a…

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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · 12d

'Macron was elected as a minority president and still is - but he acts as if he wasn't'
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'Macron was elected as a minority president and still is - but he acts as if he wasn't'

In an interview with Mediapart, France's former human rights ombudsman Jacques Toubon has urged the president and his political allies to cede part of their power in order that a government with a w…

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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · 14d

Sarkozy-Gaddafi court case: ten questions to help understand an historic verdict
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Sarkozy-Gaddafi court case: ten questions to help understand an historic verdict

Mediapart has analysed the 400 pages of the court judgement that saw ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy, his former senior aides Claude Guéant, Brice Hortefeux, middleman Alexandre Djouhri and others conv…

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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · 16d

France is finally tackling state crime
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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · 16d

Sarkozy-Gaddafi funding trial: a serpentine ten-year investigation
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Mediapart is a digital, participatory and independent newspaper, without advertising or subsidies, and which lives only from the support of its readers.

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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · 17d

Nicolas Sarkozy jailed for criminal conspiracy over Libyan election funding scandal
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Nicolas Sarkozy jailed for criminal conspiracy over Libyan election funding scandal

In an historic verdict, the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been given a five-year jail term after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy over claims that money from Muammar Gaddafi's …

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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · 17d

Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of criminal conspiracy over Libyan election funding scandal
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Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of criminal conspiracy over Libyan election funding scandal

In an historic verdict, the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been found guilty of criminal conspiracy over claims that money from Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan regime was used to fund his 2007 …

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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · 18d

Ziad Takieddine, the final judgement: key figure in Sarkozy-Libya case dies two days before court verdict
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Ziad Takieddine, the final judgement: key figure in Sarkozy-Libya case dies two days before court verdict

A key figure in the Karachi and Sarkozy-Gaddafi scandals, the middleman Ziad Takieddine died on Tuesday, September 23rd, at a hospital in Beirut. His death in the Lebanese capital came just two days…

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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · 20d

Sex-tape and the city hall: French mayor on trial over blackmail of his deputy
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Sex-tape and the city hall: French mayor on trial over blackmail of his deputy

Gaël Perdriau, mayor of the city of Saint-Étienne in south-east France, stood trial on September 22nd for his role in a homophobic blackmail plot against his own deputy, who was secretly filmed with…

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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · 26d

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French study reveals high pesticide exposure for vineyard neighbours

A study published this week by two French health agencies details a well-above-average exposure to pesticides of residents who live close to vineyards, as illustrated in urine and hair samples, and …

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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · 29d

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Sébastien Lecornu, France's 'politicking' new prime minister and Macron's last hope

Sébastien Lecornu, 39, was on Monday appointed by Emmanuel Macron as France’s new prime minister, tasked with pushing the president’s policy programme through France’s hung parliament – there where …

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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · 29d

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Macron's self-made political crisis and its threat to democracy

Insensitive to mounting anger in France over worsening social conditions and increasing demands made upon the less well-off, while obstinately turning his back on honouring the results of last year’…

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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · Sep 9

Bayrou sunk and Macron damaged as National Assembly votes down French government
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Bayrou sunk and Macron damaged as National Assembly votes down French government

France's prime minister François Bayrou is due to tender his resignation to President Emmanuel Macron in the coming hours after his government was heavily defeated on Monday evening in a vote of con…

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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · Sep 7

'We know who's first in line to benefit': why France's working-class districts are wary of September 10th protest
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'We know who's first in line to benefit': why France's working-class districts are wary of September 10th protest

A major nationwide protest to “block everything” is due to take place across France on September 10th. However, the reaction of working-class, multi-ethnic neighbourhoods to it remains a weak point …

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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · Sep 5

The record of Bayrou's short-lived government analysed on the eve of its likely demise
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The record of Bayrou's short-lived government analysed on the eve of its likely demise

On September 8th the government of François Bayrou looks set to be toppled in a vote of confidence that the prime minister himself has called. Since his appointment at the end of December 2024, Bayro…

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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · Sep 3

Artificial Intelligence and the degradation of work
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Artificial Intelligence and the degradation of work

In his latest book 'Un taylorisme augmenté' ('Enhanced Taylorism') the France-based sociologist Juan Sebastián Carbonell offers a fresh perspective on the likely impact of artificial intelligence on…

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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · Sep 1

French PM François Bayrou restores his mayor's office - while preaching austerity to the nation
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French PM François Bayrou restores his mayor's office - while preaching austerity to the nation

Prime minister François Bayrou has approved the renovation of his office in Pau, the small city in south-west France where he is also still the serving mayor. The aim of the work is to “restore the o…

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Mediapart in English @mediaparten.bsky.social · Aug 30

Cancelling of 'Barbie' film screening is latest in series of assaults on cultural freedom in France
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Cancelling of 'Barbie' film screening is latest in series of assaults on cultural freedom in France

Earlier this month a screening of the hit film 'Barbie' in the Paris suburb of Noisy-le-Sec was cancelled after local protests. Yet the move to stop this film being shown was just the latest episode…

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