Trump and Macron’s backslapping masks a rocky relationship
It would be a stretch to describe Emmanuel Macron’s meeting with Donald Trump as a ‘bromance’, but there were plenty…
France’s National Rally has lost its way
Jordan Bardella flew to America last week on a trip he had long boasted about. The president of the National…
Will Macron get tough on Algeria over the French knife attack?
Emmanuel Macron will hold talks with Donald Trump on Monday at which the President of France will attempt to ‘make…
Christoph Heusgen is just another arrogant boomer
Historians will look back on the tears of Christoph Heusgen as a defining moment of the early 21st century. When the…
The Nigerian drug mafia is heading for Britain
It’s an established fact that most of Britain’s drug trade is controlled by Albanians. There is some competition from Turks…
Europe has much to learn from Georgia Meloni
Giorgia Meloni was nearly an hour late for Monday’s European crisis summit at the Elysee Palace in Paris. According to…
Can Europe stand on its own two feet against Russia?
The United States is no longer an ‘ally’ of Europe, according to a former high-ranking figure in Nato. In an…
Europe should listen to America’s uncomfortable truths
The response in Europe to J.D Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference last Friday was one of predictable outrage.…
JD Vance is right. Europe is in peril
On Wednesday evening, a man threw a fragmentation grenade into a café in Grenoble, leaving 15 people injured. The following…
How the judiciary fuel Europe’s migrant crisis
If Europeans wanted evidence that it is judges and not politicians who run their countries this month has proved it.…
Why is Jean-Luc Melenchon talking about the ‘Great Replacement’ theory?
Jean-Luc Melenchon has broken a taboo in French, and Western, politics. The de facto leader of the French left, whose…
Donald Trump’s challenge to the European Union
There is a wind of change blowing through the West. It emanates from Washington DC, where Donald Trump continues to…
Is a ‘Trump tornado’ about to tear through Europe?
There is a wind of change blowing through the West. It emanates from Washington DC, where Donald Trump continues to…
Macron needs to find his inner Trump
If a week is a long time in politics then eight years is an eternity. Just ask Donald Trump and…
Why is Spain so anti-Trump?
Spain has been receiving some lavish praise of late in the British press. ‘Booming Spain is on track to a…
Europe is feeling the strain of mass immigration
Britain can’t cope, that was the response of Nigel Farage to last week’s disclosure by the Office for National Statistics that…
How many more knife attacks can France take?
Each day in France there are 120 knife attacks. On Saturday, one such incident resulted in the death of 14-year-old…
Like the Louvre, Macron’s presidency is falling apart
Emmanuel Macron has promised to return the Louvre to its former glory in an ambitious renovation project that is forecast…
Europe has no idea how to stop the spread of Islamism
Last week was surely one of the grimmest in Europe in years. The day after an Afghan migrant allegedly stabbed…
A British Puy du Fou will upset all the right people
There is a new theme park coming to Britain – though without big dippers and ghost trains. It will be an…
Why we’ll probably learn nothing from the Southport murders
The PM’s warm words will count for little. Starmer’s pledge is reminiscent of the one made by Theresa May in…
Is it too late to Make Europe Great Again?
A poll published last week by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) found that much of the world is relishing the…
How France’s Jimmy Savile also got away with his evil
This week nine more charges of sexual abuse were levelled against Abbé Pierre, the late French Roman Catholic priest who…
Why has Trump invited Zemmour – and not Le Pen – to his inauguration?
There will be two politicians from France in Washington next week to see Donald Trump sworn in as president –…
The plot to ban X in France
Clara Chappaz is the minister delegate for Artificial Intelligence and the digital economy in the government of Emmanuel Macron. At…
