A quick guide to the French presidential election – said to be the least predictable in decades.
France’s election is a test-bed for democratic renewal. However, without a more coherent understanding of how to be more democratic, it is unlikely that the next French president will be truly innovative, writes Stephen Boucher.
But both hold consequences for NATO and the European Union.
Why Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s late surge? Are we about to see de Gaulle’s fifth republic replaced by a sixth? And in 2017, what does a Citizens’ Revolution look like?
The two frontrunners in the French presidential election, far-right leader Marine Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron, staged rival rallies in Paris on Monday, while outsider Mélenchon cruised through the capital on a barge.
Macron and Le Pen are leading in polls, but Fillon and Melenchon also stand a chance in France’s most unpredictable vote in decades.
The EU’s executive says recent conservative moves by Hungary could conflict with EU law and values.
Ten days of protests against Serbia’s election results continued on 13 April, with Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić minimising their importance, and the opposition saying that the political system needs changing. EURACTIV Serbia reports.
70,000 march in Budapest to protest legislative attack on Central European University
Joe writes, “Hungarians rose up in one of the largest protests against the seven-year rule of right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Sunday, protesting against new legislation that could force out of the country one of its top international universities.”
Having decided to protest until the bitter end, the students of Serbia have received the support of both the police union and the military – “Against dictatorship”, against nepotism and corruption
How American internet “warriors” took their fight to France’s elections.
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