Blame the EU for what’s happening to France
Michel Barnier’s government is likely to be toast by teatime when a vote of no confidence is tabled in France’s…
Is this the end for Barnier – and Macron?
Emmanuel Macron arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday for trade talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Having signed a…
Is Marine Le Pen ready to bring down Macron?
There is a deadline today in France. It was set by Marine Le Pen last week for Michel Barnier. Show…
France is still fighting the tyranny of Islamophobia
It is almost ten years since I and two million Parisians walked through the French capital on a cold Sunday…
The strange sanctification of Angela Merkel
When the history of the twentieth century is written, one of the questions that will puzzle historians is the sanctification of…
Don’t expect an end to Europe’s migrant crisis any time soon
Nearly a year ago the EU unveiled what it called its ‘New Pact on Migration and Asylum’ with much fanfare.…
Why Jaguar’s rebrand is doomed
Jaguar’s disastrous makeover has left many people wondering if it isn’t April Fool’s Day. It’s not, of course. After 89…
Banning Marine Le Pen from politics would be a grave mistake
Paris prosecutors last week recommended that Marine Le Pen be jailed and banned from public office for five years. The…
Donald Trump’s style of politics originated in Europe
A headline in a recent Washington Post op-ed declared that: ‘The Trump contagion is already in Europe – and it’s…
Will Jewish football fans dare come to Paris tonight?
France play Israel this evening in an international football match in Paris. The venue is the Stade de France although…
Ursula von der Leyen is Europe’s Kamala Harris
European farmers have called for a day of protest in Brussels on Wednesday, 48 hours before the EU is expected…
Jewish football fans are not safe in Europe
Israeli football fans were attacked in Amsterdam on Thursday evening and three supporters are listed as missing this morning. It…
What Marine Le Pen can learn from Donald Trump
The reaction of Marine Le Pen and her party to the stunning triumph of Donald Trump was curiously flat. Emmanuel Macron…
Donald Trump is Ursula von der Leyen’s worst nightmare
The first European leader to tweet their response to Donald Trump’s victory was Emmanuel Macron of France, pipping Giorgia Meloni…
France’s drugs war is spiralling out of control
Even by the bloody standards of what France has become under Emmanuel Macron, the carnage last week was horrific. In…
It’s rich of the French to call Trump ‘vulgar’
There has always been a touch of snobbery in the way the French elite regard American politics. The word one…
Why is the UN meddling in France’s hijab ban?
The United Nations this week criticised France for refusing to allow women and girls to wear a Muslim headscarf on…
Macron is doing his best to alienate France’s Jews
Emmanuel Macron arrived in Morocco on Monday for a three day State visit, during which time he will discuss trade…
How the French left is fuelling the small boats crisis
Three more migrants drowned off the French coast this week when their overcrowded and flimsy boat sank. In response to…
The EU knows all about destabilising democracy
Moldovans have voted ‘yes’ by a wafer-thin majority to joining the European Union in a referendum that was held amid ‘unprecedented interference’…
French farmers are on the verge of revolting again
A French MP was apprehended by police in Paris last week as he bought 1.35 grams of the designer drug ‘3-MMC’ from…
Meloni’s migrant crisis success must be unbearable for Macron
When the 27 leaders of the European Union met in Brussels this week, the migrant crisis was high on the…
Marine Le Pen has a new, right-wing rival
It was only a few months ago that the bogeyman of the Paris elite was Jordan Bardella. Now it’s Bruno…
Macron is in office, but is he in power?
Emmanuel Macron is said to be appalled by his new right-wing government. A confidant of the French president conveyed to…
Who is slipping through Europe’s porous borders?
In the same week that over 1,000 migrants arrived in England, the head of MI5 admitted his agency had ‘one…
