#FRANCE

John Lichfield

john_lichfield

Weekly French Covid thread. It is probable that France will be placed in a 3rd lockdown in a few days. With the mood of the country turning sour – only

鍾翔宇 Xiangyu

notXiangyu

Thread on the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact:1. In August, 1939, Stalin called on the UK and France to form an anti-fascist alliance. It was only after they rejected this proposal that the

Maya Goodfellow

MayaGoodfellow

Absolutely appalling and unbelievable - this comes after weeks of the government ramping up anti-asylum sentiment. The reason people have to risk their lives in the first place is because

河濱（臺灣）

_amenamy

I actually want to use this story as a reminder for my Americans friends that Sciences Po is NOT the "liberal enclave" in France as y'all love to picture it.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

KendraWrites

I know it's been three and a half years, but Pittsburgh wanted to stay in the Paris Agreement (which to be clear has little to do with the city of

Stanley Pignal

spignal

France is debating a law that would make it a criminal offence to broadcast images of police enforcement. Or, rather, making the broadcast obligations so onerous cops would easily be

Gabriel Zucman

gabriel_zucman

There's a funny collective amnesia in the US about what happened before 1980The tax system used to be highly progressive (ahem, 91% top marginal income tax rate)—but hey, never happenedThe

Benjamin Haddad

benjaminhaddad

Maybe the best book to understand some of the modern dilemmas of French foreign policy, but also lessons for transatlantic relations. De Gaulle’s political genius during WWII was to understand

🍒 Andrew Fletcher 🍒

ScotiaIndyref2

1/15 Scotland’s most famous connection with Europe was the Auld Alliance with France. First agreed in 1295/6 the Auld Alliance was built on Scotland and France’s shared need to curtail

Jorge Martin

marxistJorge

The disgusting spectacle of Macron, representing the former colonial power, trying to make political gain out of the Beirut blast which has left hundreds of thousands homeless. France, together with

Michaël Mangeon

Mangeon4

Connaissant un peu mes followers, plutôt pro-nucléaires et masculins... ...Voici un petit contre-pied avec 3 ouvrages de sciences humaines et sociales, écrits par des femmes, avec des approches plutôt "critiques"

Raux JF

RauxJF

Avec Hercule (EDF), la France est une nouvelle fois sûre d’être cocue. Pourquoi ? Parce que tout le monde pense que créer une structure publique « spécialisée » nucléaire va, enfin résoudre

Giovanni B. Ponzetto

gbponz

Thread:The #RecoveryFund negotiations are still in the construction phase anyway: all parties are putting on the table all "unreasonable " conditions they can think of, we will see in Autumn

Michael McDowell

Mik3Mcdowell

How French Colonialism destabilized modern Lebanon (and why this petition is horrid): a threadhttps://twitter.com/nptluiromulus/status/1291361201994309633 This began with the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire via the Allied powers. Two of t

HOPE not hate

hopenothate

A lot has been happening in France over the past few weeks, from violent attacks, to aggressive rhetoric against a minority group, to the systematic breakdown of NGOs combatting racism.

Rama

photos_floues

"Laïcité" in France is nothing more than a policy to manage churches, and not even the only one, at that.If tempted to make a statement, try to remplace "Laïcité" with

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