France’s highest administrative court has ordered the country's media regulator to look into editorial balance and independence at CNews – dubbed by critics the French Fox News.
Europe News: Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, has shifted towards a more conservative direction. This article explores Macron's new course and the impact it will have on France.
France, once again, is on the verge of chaos. The subject of the discontent is the adoption of a law reforming the pension system in a minimal way: the legal retirement age in France has been set at 62 since 2010; the law raises it two years, to 64.
The working class was supposed to have been edged out of active politics, but instead France's elites have been frightened into making concessions by this winter's uprising of the yellow vests. Its continuing popularity suggests that it is recasting French politics.
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