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Borderless border crossings
2007-11-08 19:20:00 The whole idea behind the common market, or European Union as we call it these days, was that borders between the countries participating would gradually cease to exist and, for the most part, that has been gradually happening over the last 20 or 30 years. How come then there’s almost always a queue at the ...
Minorities Make Waves In French Politics
2007-06-10 07:20:00 LYON, France -- When Najat Vallaud Belkacem, a Moroccan Muslim immigrant, applied to France's most prestigious political science university, she recalled, her high school teachers told her she'd never be accepted: She wasn't rich, she wasn't from
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So it?s Sarkozy: what now for France?
2007-05-07 08:20:00 The margin was relatively slim (53/47) but France has, much to my surprise, chosen the president that it needs at this time. His first hundred days are likely to be turbulent ones and I suspect that last nights riots across France are merely a taster of things to come. Many of his policies seem to run ...
Jean-Marie Le Pen is a sensitive subject for the F...
2007-05-01 22:07:00 Jean-Marie Le Pen is a sensitive subject for the French. To most of the population, he?s a dinosaur ? a racist xenophobic extremist whose existence on the political scene is a disgrace to the country. But for a shocking 11 percent of the voting population, he?s a revolutionary ? a martyr whose destiny is to make France French again. Le Pen founded the Front National in 1972, a far-right political party that wants to return France to its traditional roots, distance the country from the European Union, reinstate the death penalty and basically deport all immigrants. Le Pen?s daughter Marine is a party executive and the popular pick for the FN?s candidate for the présidentielle once Jean-Marie leaves the scene. Because Jean-Marie is such a polarizing figure, Marine is seen as the hope for the future of the party. According to my vie politique professor, Marine is a much more dangerous figure than Jean-Marie, for just that reason. She?s softer, less extreme and was never convicte... |
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