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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Victor Goury-Laffont

    French government calls crisis meeting as some school blockades turn violent (opens the original)

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    PARIS — French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu called an emergency meeting on Thursday to address the fast-growing number of student protests across the country. The movement, which was born of anger over conditions in secondary schools, began in recent days with teenagers blocking entrances to educational institutions in underprivileged suburbs of Paris. The Union Syndicale Lycéenne, the student union spearheading the demonstrations, said they want authorities to address a “shortage of teacher

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Victor Goury-Laffont

    Mélenchon’s plan to beat the far right: Grab the first-time voters (opens the original)

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    PARIS — French far-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon is betting his blunt style and socially radical agenda will convince first-time voters to back him en masse and propel him into a runoff duel against far-right front-runner Marine Le Pen in 2027. After embracing similar tactics in local elections earlier this year, Mélenchon has increasingly set himself up on the campaign trail as a foil to the anti-immigration Le Pen by embracing a vision of what he calls “a new France” that cele

  3. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Victor Goury-Laffont

    French far right’s Bardella denies reports he made antisemitic comments (opens the original)

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    PARIS — The president of France’s far-right National Rally, Jordan Bardella, “categorically denied” accusations by French investigative outlet Mediapart that he had shared antisemitic remarks in private conversations as a teenage activist. Bardella said he had instructed his lawyer “to initiate all necessary proceedings” against Mediapart for publishing what the 31-year-old MEP called “blatant falsehoods.” Mediapart said it obtained and independently verified correspondence in which Bardella sai

  4. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Victor Goury-Laffont

    Far right scores historic victory in French Senate election (opens the original)

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    PARIS — Marine Le Pen’s National Rally won enough seats to form a group in the French Senate elections Sunday, giving the far-right party better representation in leadership roles and committees in the upper house of parliament. “This is a historic victory and a major milestone,” Le Pen wrote on X. The National Rally jumped from three seats to 15 in the Senate during Sunday’s contest, clearing the 11-seat threshold to form a group. Half the Senate is elected every three years by some 42,000 loca

  5. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Victor Goury-Laffont

    Azerbaijan frees French prisoner after EU lifts sanctions on Russian billionaire (opens the original)

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    French citizen Martin Ryan is being released from Azerbaijani prison, one day after Paris successfully lobbied Brussels to lift sanctions on Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov. Ryan, who was convicted of espionage charges, was the only French prisoner among several individuals pardoned by Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev on Wednesday. The Financial Times reported that the delisting was part of a deal that could see French nationals released from detention in Azerbaijan. Paris has significantly

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