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Fact-based reporting and analysis of French, European, and wider global politics.

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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷 🏙️A new Paris metropole 🏛️Lyhanna affair causes institutional shame Bernadette Chirac has passed away frenchdispatch.eu/p/grand-pa…

A Plan to Reinvent Paris, and a Judicial System That Failed a Child

France's Haut-Commissariat proposes abolishing the Métropole du Grand Paris, while the murder of 11-year-old Lyhanna exposes a judiciary drowning in backlogs.

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France and Germany want to gut the EEAS, but dismantling the EU's diplomatic service won't fix EU foreign policy. The problem is structural. frenchdispatch.eu/p/eeas-ref…

The EEAS Isn't Broken. The System Is.

France and Germany want to gut the EEAS. But dismantling the EU's diplomatic service won't fix EU foreign policy. The problem is structural.

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Yuliia Mendel and the Anatomy of a Disinformation Campaign How Zelenskyy's former spokesperson became a vector for Russian disinformation, and why Tucker Carlson's platform was the point. By Yuriy Boyechko from @hopeforukraine frenchdispatch.eu/p/yuliia-m…

Yuliia Mendel and the Anatomy of a Disinformation Campaign

How Zelenskyy's former spokesperson became a vector for Russian disinformation, and why Tucker Carlson's platform was the point.

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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷 🌍France remains most attractive EU country for foreign investment 🇮🇱Ben-Gvir banned from France 🏛️Attal announces 2027 Presidential run frenchdispatch.eu/p/france-2…

Gabriel Attal enters the 2027 presidential race

The Renaissance leader declared his candidacy in rural Aveyron, as France again tops EU investment rankings and Ben-Gvir is banned from French territory

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Philippe's Le Havre problem just became a Presidential problem The PNF has referred the Cité numérique file to a juge d'instruction. The centrist favourite is now fighting to stay clean. frenchdispatch.eu/p/philippe…

Philippe's Le Havre problem just became a Presidential problem

The PNF has referred the Cité numérique file to a juge d'instruction. The centrist favourite is now fighting to stay clean.

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Europe faces threats on every front, and the six largest economies have stopped waiting for unanimity. The €11 trillion question is whether they can pull off federal economic policy without a treaty. frenchdispatch.eu/p/e6-feder…

The E6: Federalism by Other Means

Europe faces threats on every front, and the six largest economies have stopped waiting for unanimity. The €11 trillion question is whether they can pull off federal economic policy without a treaty.

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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷 🌍The French Dispatch @ @GLOBSEC Forum 2026 🧑‍⚖️EU prosecutors open fraud probe into Bardella 🇮🇱France investigates potential election interference from Israel 📜500 local officials call for Attal presidential candidacy frenchdispatch.eu/p/bardella…

Bardella Faces EU Fraud Probe Amid French Election Scandal

Bardella faces an EPPO investigation, Le Pen awaits her appeal ruling, an Israeli firm is accused of election interference in France, and Attal is making his move

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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷 🪖Young people rush to national military service 🌹Faure pushes for a single left-wing candidate 🇫🇷Macron: largest French military exercise since Cold War “a clear signal” frenchdispatch.eu/p/france-o…

Macron: Orion 26 "clear signal" to adversaries; French Army swamped with recruits

France's largest military exercise since the Cold War wraps up, the new voluntary national service scheme is oversubscribed on day one, and the Socialist leader calls for a unified left ahead of 2027

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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷 📢Glucksmann goes solo for 2027 🇬🇷Macron: France will stand by Greece if threatened 🇮🇷Macron reassures public on energy shortages frenchdispatch.eu/p/macron-e…

Macron Pledges to Defend Europe as France Braces for Iran Energy Crisis

The French President reaffirms mutual defence commitments in Athens, warns against panic over Strait of Hormuz disruption, and Glucksmann eyes 2027 on his own terms.

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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷 🇱🇧French soldier killed in Lebanon 🇮🇷Macron and allies push to open Hormuz frenchdispatch.eu/p/macron-h…

Macron Leads European Push to Reopen Hormuz After French Soldier Killed in Lebanon

A deadly attack on a UN peacekeeping patrol and a global energy crisis converge in a defining week for French foreign policy

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How Donald Trump's colossal failure in Iran manages to hand Tehran exactly what it wants frenchdispatch.eu/p/trump-ba…

Trump Chickens Out Again in Iran

How Donald Trump's colossal failure in Iran manages to hand Tehran exactly what it wants

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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷 🇮🇷French ship passes through Strait of Hormuz 🧑‍⚖️MEP Rima Hassan arrested for terrorism apologia 🇯🇵🇰🇷Macron scores wins across Japan and Korea frenchdispatch.eu/p/french-s…

Rima Hassan Arrested, a French Ship Passes Hormuz Blockade, and Macron Courts Japan & Korea

An MEP faces terrorism apologia charges, a French vessel navigates the Iran-controlled strait, and Emmanuel Macron returns from Tokyo and Seoul with sixty new agreements in hand.

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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷 📊Presidential Polling update 📈Macron’s polling numbers jump over Iran 💼Alstom wins €1 billion mega contract in Serbia 🏦French 2025 deficit lower than expected frenchdispatch.eu/p/france-2…

France Beats Deficit Forecast, Macron Approval Climbs, Alstom Wins €915m Contract

INSEE figures beat government forecasts as the Lecornu government steadies the ship, Macron climbs in the polls, and French industry scores a huge win in Serbia

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🗳️Second Round - Paris Municipal Election (IFOP Estimation) Emmanuel GRÉGOIRE (PS) - 51.00% Rachida DATI (LR) - 37.00% Sophia CHIKIROU - 14.10%
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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷 🗳️Second round of municipal elections takes place today 🤝Dati reliant on far-right vs socialist Grégoire in Paris ⚓Macron unveils “France Libre” aircraft carrier frenchdispatch.eu/p/france-m…

France 2026 Municipal Elections, the Paris Mayoral Race, and Macron's New Aircraft Carrier

France's second-round municipal elections are underway, with the Paris mayoralty hanging in the balance between Dati and Grégoire, while Macron unveils the €10 billion France Libre aircraft carrier

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This week in the French Dispatch 🇫🇷 🇮🇷Europe on the Brink 📣Far-right attacks LFI event seeking “justice for Quentin” 🙅‍♂️Renaissance pulls support for Les Républicains over far-right alliance 📈Fitch maintains French A debt rating frenchdispatch.eu/p/balaclav…

Balaclavas, Broken Alliances & Bond Ratings

From a far-right attack on an LFI rally in Lille to the collapsing centrist coalition between Renaissance and Les Républicains in Montluçon - and what Fitch's A rating means for France.

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This week in the French Dispatch 🇫🇷 🇺🇸Trumps Diplomat Kushner blocked from government meetings in Paris ⬇️La France Insoumise is in deep trouble following far-left violence frenchdispatch.eu/p/france-b…

Trump's ambassador blocked by Paris, and Mélenchon falls into a political hole after far-left...

Paris briefly froze access for Trump’s envoy after a provocative embassy intervention, as new polling shows Mélenchon’s LFI haemorrhaging legitimacy amid violence backlash

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This week in the French Dispatch 🇫🇷 🚓Seven arrested for Quentin Deranque murder 💬La France Insoumise losing ground in the Quentin D. case 🇪🇺Macron and Merz call for joint response to Trump tariffs frenchdispatch.eu/p/quentin-…

Quentin Deranque Case in Lyon: Seven Arrested, LFI Under Pressure, Macron and Merz Respond to Trump...

A homicide investigation in Lyon, mounting political pressure on La France Insoumise, and a growing EU pushback after Donald Trump’s tariff threats.

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This week in the French Dispatch 🇫🇷 🇳🇪Niger prepares for war with France ⚖️ Far-right activist killed by far-left 🤝Pécresse calls for primary for right and centre frenchdispatch.eu/p/niger-fr…

Niger “prepares for war” with France as political violence escalates in Lyon

From Niamey’s anti-French rhetoric and Russian disinformation to the killing of a far-right activist in Lyon and Valérie Pécresse’s bid to reshape the French right.

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This week in the French Dispatch 🇫🇷 🇷🇺Operation Storm-1516 targets Emmanuel Macron 🚓Musk’s Paris offices raided before Paris Prosecutor summons frenchdispatch.eu/p/russian-…

Russian Disinformation Targets Macron as French Prosecutors Move Against Elon Musk’s X

From the Storm-1516 propaganda operation to raids on Musk’s Paris offices, France confronts disinformation, platform abuse, and democratic destabilisation

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