France’s last government promised hardship points so that workers could retire earlier. But President Emmanuel Macron has narrowed the criteria and risks for women workers are still ignored.Read the full article
“Politicians and the general public need to understand that this is not a ‘Roma issue’ but a question of poor housing and economic insecurity.”Read the full article
France has been accumulating nuclear waste since 1974, with no long-term solution for recycling it. Plans to bury it underground in Bure, in the east of France, are the object of fierce opposition from the anti-nuclear movement.Read the full article
“I’m expecting the government to take an interest in industry and small businesses in rural areas, because we want to be able to continue to live and work in the countryside where we are from.”Read the full article
In this corner of western France, several businesses and communities risk suffering the consequences of the referendum of 23 June 2016.Read the full article
“Corruption is very serious because it breaks down the Rule of Law, and the distrust it creates among citizens undermines the foundations of democracy”Read the full article
Thirty one years after the nuclear accident at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine, and just six since the Fukushima disaster in Japan, there are more than enough reasons for the eternal debate over the reliability and safety of nuclear power to be as heated as [...]Read the full article
“We are experiencing both a democratic crisis and a groundswell of democratic participation”Read the full article
“There is very little of substance. But he has put a very personal stamp on the way he has changed the political discourse. He has turned politics into a form of product marketing.”Read the full article
The rebranding of the Front National is centred on a communication strategy that leaves nothing to chance.Read the full article
“Guiana is thirty years behind the rest of France. This has to stop! The social implosion we have been warned about for decades is happening, right now.”Read the full article
An official crackdown on immigration has thrown a tight noose around French freedoms, bringing citizens and migrants together in a common struggle for greater rights.Read the full article
