Eight months ago, when Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front had a chance of winning the French presidency, Germany feared for France’s future.

Before the just-concluded French presidential election, the United States’ National Public Radio (NPR) requested that I give an interview about the outcome.

Relief and pride are the main emotions many French citizens are feeling after the first round of the French presidential election, in which Emmanuel Macron finished first.For once, the pollsters were right: the two favoured candidates — Macron and the National Front’s Marine Le P

There was a time, immediately after German reunification in 1990, when many French feared Germany.

In less than 50 days, we will know who the next president of the United States will be.Though Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton has a lead in national opinion polls, it has narrowed to a near-tie, meaning that her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, could well triumph.Indeed, U

In a little more than a year, the French will vote to elect their new president.It is, of course, far too early to make any predictions.

Five years ago, when the so-called “Arab Spring” erupted, Turkey’s hour seemed to have arrived.Having been humiliated by the European Union after years of accession negotiations — talks marked by a chain of false promises from the EU — Turkey’s then-prime minister (and now presid

Ever since the terrorist attacks in January on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket, Parisians knew that barbarism lurked around the corner, and that it would strike again.But it is one thing to know something, to anticipate it, and another to be confront

“Germany, Germany”, shout thousands of refugees, faced with the obvious bad will of Hungary’s political authorities, in front of Budapest’s Keleti railway station.They are dreaming of Germany — not any European country, but specifically Germany — the way, more than a century ago,