Policy Network - Opinion

Le Pen: a warning Hollande cannot ignore

Renaud Thillaye - 26 April 2012

Can Hollande bridge the socio-economic anger of “la France invisible” and vested interests of upper middle-class “insiders” and civil servants?
A coalition make or break for Hollande

Renaud Thillaye - 12 April 2012

Everyone is telling Hollande to flirt with the surging Melenchon, but why is he not looking to Bayrou?
The Sarkozy offensive

Gilles Ivaldi & Jocelyn Evans - 22 March 2012

French elections may be swung by an anti-Sarkozy referendum. But national security questions and aggressive campaigning are testing Hollande.
The Europeanisation of domestic politics

Olaf Cramme - 13 March 2012

The trend towards the Europeanisation of domestic politics may see the emergence of a genuine debate between left and right at the EU level.
Singing to the tune of the Conservative European choir

Kristian Madsen - 01 February 2012

Helle Thorning-Schmidt missed an opportunity to become a strong if lonely progressive voice at the European top-table.
The dangers of a French Socialist dream

Gilles Ivaldi & Jocelyn Evans - 31 January 2012

Hollande may succeed in a volatile electoral environment; but victory could be a sobering ordeal.
Hollande’s message of fiscal responsibility must promise progress

Benjamin Senes - 09 January 2012

Having embraced a degree of fiscal conservatism, the Socialists are nonetheless wary of it becoming a dogmatic position or an end in itself.
Squaring the circle of global markets and national politics

Eric Sundström - 30 November 2011

The PES Congress fell short of answering key questions on political leadership and credible economic solutions to the crisis.
The successes and failures of multiculturalism

Alan Manning - 15 November 2011

The evidence shows that multiculturalism succeeded in promoting a sense of belonging, but paid little or no attention to white natives.
Hollande carries the flame for French Socialism

Laurent Bouvet - 19 October 2011

The French presidential result will be the ultimate judge of a rousing Socialist primary campaign.

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