Macron’s France offers a political mirror which Starmer’s Labour ignores at its peril. After years of cautious positioning, Labour has stumbled through the opening phase of government, seemingly unaware of a public exhausted by decline and impatient for visible change. Macron began his project with similar ambitions – technocratic renewal through post-tribal politics – but it has collapsed under a failure to deliver significant structural reform, fracturing the political land

It was a chilly February night in Bordeaux when a young activist took a few steps away from the entrance of a local university. Angry...

French politics - ever volatile, fascinating and changing - has been stewing over the unclear outlook for the 2027 presidential elections...

Illustration by Will Allen/Europinion Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs have shifted the news cycle away from the Ukraine War to the...

On March 31st, 2025, France experienced a political "earthquake". The figurehead of Rassemblement National (RN), Marine Le Pen, was found...

Illustration by Will Allen We are just entering the second half of this decade and the political landscape in several countries seems to...

" You have to stay cool. Don't feed the troll " said  German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in response to Elon Musk's endorsement  of Germany's...

As the year draws to a close, we look upon an almost unrecognisable Europe. From the collapse of the tricolour government of Olaf Scholz...

Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron have today pledged to 'support Ukraine unwaveringly' for as long as necessary to 'thwart Russia's war of...

On the 21st of September, two and a half months after the legislative elections in which the left-wing alliance, the Nouveau Front...

Across France over 100,000 people have taken to the streets in protest of what they perceive as a stolen election, the will of the people...

When the European Community first became a concept in the aftermath of the Second World War, it was to unite the continent after the...

This year, on the 20th of June, French police arrested 18 members of the climate activist group Les Soulèvements de la Terre (SLT). In...