Members of the far-right group Nordic Resistance Movement march in Helsinki on Dec. 6, 2017, during centennial festivities of Finnish independence.
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French far-right party, the National Front, has taken a third of votes, nearly doubling its support from 2022.
Macron heads to the stage to deliver a speech on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the World War II “D-Day” Allied landings in Normandy.
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Macron has often referred to historian and ‘résistant’ Mark Bloch. As his dissolution of parliament opens the way to the far-right, might it be time he went back to reading him?
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For the far-right party’s voters, school is a source of concern and mistrust and also a key to understanding its success among women and voters with few qualifications.
Marine Le Pen delivers a speech next to National Rally president Jordan Bardella after the first results of the European elections.
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British progressive economists such as Barbara Wootton and William Beveridge locked horns with Friedrich Hayek over their vision of a European federation.
Heavily influenced by the spa towns of Germany and Austria, Vichy is one of France’s most famous spa retreats in France.
France’s approach to thermal medicine is more than just day at the spa. Instead, the country’s practice of “thermalism” is medically recognised and state reimbursed.
Big Pharma is not necessarily incompatible with climate goals.
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Laïcité, which historically upheld individual freedom, denies minority rights today, as seen in the ban on French athletes wearing hijabs at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Ad-hoc responses to the situation in Ukraine don’t amount to a coherent vision.
Jocelyn Armel, aka the Bachelor, is one of the most talked-about ‘Sapeurs’ in the media. He’s known for his outings, interviews and above all for his promotion of the ‘Sapeurs’ and Africa.
The members of the Society for Ambience and Elegance (Sape) are impossible to overlook. Born in Central Africa at the beginning of the 20th century, the style is now found from Paris to Dubai.
More than two years of war have left swaths of Ukraine in ruins.
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