First-round results suggest the French left can hold its ground in this month’s local elections. This positive outcome comes despite a campaign defined by an acrimonious civil war between the center-l...

With U.S. and Israeli bombs dropping on Tehran, Europe is once again cowed into silence because of its addiction to American power.

French far-right activist Quentin Deranque has died from injuries sustained in a street battle with anti-fascist activists. Conservative media is using his death to whip up a moral panic about France ...

Emmanuel Macron has been a president for the rich, but his faltering support has also left big business unsure if it can rely on his party. For many French capitalists, the answer is to build up ties ...

Amid a spiraling political crisis, France’s president is being forced to retreat on his signature reform.

Le Parlement européen doit se prononcer mardi sur la levée ou non de l’immunité parlementaire d’Ilaria Salis, eurodéputée poursuivie par la justice hongroise pour sa participation à une manifestation…

Le Parlement européen doit se prononcer mardi sur la levée ou non de l’immunité parlementaire d’Ilaria Salis, eurodéputée poursuivie par la justice hongroise pour sa participation à une manifestation…

France’s new prime minister has resisted calls to suspend Emmanuel Macron’s 2023 pension reform. While left-wing opposition parties want to undo Macron’s agenda, the president is defending his attacks...

Emmanuel Macron’s hand-picked prime minister is showing few signs of wanting to compromise, as corporate interests revolt against talk of new taxes.

The French took to the streets en masse last week, days after the collapse of the latest Macron-aligned government. But the divided left-wing opposition is struggling to capitalize.

Prime Minister François Bayrou is gambling his political survival on a confidence vote, in a probably doomed attempt to force France’s hung parliament to accept an austerity budget.

Attacks on higher education in Europe and the US are part of a familiar story: while universities may once have been bastions of disinterested, critical

With Europe in ruins in 1945, Bertolt Brecht wrote that war “has been discredited for some time to come.” That period seems to be meeting its end, as European states push a new era of rearmament.

But even the ad world isn’t immune to the groundswell of climate organizing.

Now starting his 41st year in jail, Lebanese communist Georges Abdallah is Europe’s longest-held political prisoner. French authorities keep finding pretexts to deny his release, trampling on civil li...

After raising the pension age and cutting taxes on the rich, now Emmanuel Macron’s government wants to scrap the Easter Monday and VE Day bank holidays. The plan is sure to face stiff resistance, with...

Le jugement en appel de l’affaire Georges Ibrahim Abdallah est attendu jeudi 17 juillet. Retour sur le rôle de Washington dans l’incarcération en France du militant libanais, plus ancien prisonnier p…

As Paris’s deputy mayor, Ian Brossat massively expanded the French capital’s public housing stock. He spoke to Jacobin about the left-wing city hall’s record and what lessons it might have for Zohran ...

Ahead of a NATO summit, European capitals are unwilling to strain ties with Washington.

One year since the New Popular Front won a surprise election victory, France’s left looks more divided than ever. This month’s Socialist congress showed how much the party is at loggerheads with Jean-...

Emmanuel Macron’s government is calling for a ban on one of France’s largest Palestine solidarity campaigns. The proposal is repression of free speech — and makes a mockery of Macron’s attempt to soun...

The European Union has reimposed tight limits on states’ budget deficits — but with exemptions for military spending. After years of claims that austerity was over, we’re now seeing it used selectivel...

What if the law could work like a machine? Enter some facts. Tabulate according to the criminal code. Out comes the sanction. This is, in fact, an old conceit. At Léviathan’s opening, Khallaf Baraho, ...

A stabbing at a southern French mosque last Friday sparked terror and protest among France’s Muslims. Yet many top politicians refuse to speak of “Islamophobia,” instead leaning into far-right narrati...

The attempt by Brussels to regulate Silicon Valley is a bargaining chip in the trade crisis.

Europe’s wealthiest individual, Bernard Arnault, is head of luxury goods empire LVMH — and has a lot to lose from a spiraling global trade war. His reported direct line to the Trump administration sho...

The European Union’s rush to increase military spending is as much about appeasing Washington as achieving actual “strategic autonomy.”

A French court rules to bar Marine Le Pen from seeking office for five years.

French premier François Bayrou survived a confidence vote in February after promising fresh talks over pension age rise. But no change has been forthcoming — and calls for increased defense spending a...

Budapest has been repeatedly condemned for the erosion of its justice system. Will Europe’s courts still greenlight Budapest’s punitive search for leftists?

The pending deportation of Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil has also had echoes in France. Both establishment and far-right politicians are calling for Rima Hassan, a French Palestinian member of the ...

Dissatisfaction at established green parties and environmental NGOs has fed the rise of more confrontational forms of activism. The task can’t just be to raise awareness but to mobilize millions of pe...

France’s Parti Socialiste abstained in a confidence vote this week, allowing Emmanuel Macron’s allies to push through an austerity budget. Even as the president’s popularity flounders, the establishme...

As Musk wrote in a January post, “From MAGA to MEGA: Make Europe Great Again.”

During its genocidal campaign in Gaza, Israel has repeatedly flouted the rulings of international courts. While Western states indulge Israeli impunity, a coalition of states backed by left-wing parti...

France’s interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, was chosen as a sop to the far right — and now he is tightening rules on migrant regularization. Emmanuel Macron’s government is increasingly serving Mari...

I’d like to imagine Bertolt Brecht’s Fear and Misery of the Third Reich as something of a staged docufiction. Written over several years, in collaboration

An ambitious novel of ideas, Aurélien Bellanger’s Les derniers jours du Parti socialiste (The Last Days of the Socialist Party) satirizes the navel-gazing

An ambitious novel of ideas, Aurélien Bellanger’s Les derniers jours du Parti socialiste (The Last Days of the Socialist Party) satirizes the navel-gazing

On Thursday, France’s Parti Socialiste refused to back a motion of no confidence in François Bayrou’s government. It sold out its left-wing allies for feeble concessions, renewing the party’s dismal r...

Is it too late for Europe to unwind its dependence on the United States?

On Friday, veteran liberal François Bayrou was announced as Emmanuel Macron’s new prime minister. Macron has again formed a government without a majority in parliament — and its planned budget cuts se...

Last week, France’s left-wing parties tabled the no-confidence vote that felled conservative premier Michel Barnier. Now the Parti Socialiste threatens to break from the left-wing alliance in favor of...

Ciarán and Uma talk to Harrison about how the EU will respond to Trump 2 and the Draghi Report, that thing everyone half read.

The French parliament votes to oust the government.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is embroiled in an embezzlement trial that could see her barred from public office. After long demanding such bans for corrupt politicians, she now casts herself ...