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This week in the French Dispatch 🇫🇷

🇷🇺Operation Storm-1516 targets Emmanuel Macron
🚓Musk’s Paris offices raided before Paris Prosecutor summons

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Russian Disinformation Targets Macron as French Prosecutors Move Against Elon Musk’s X
From the Storm-1516 propaganda operation to raids on Musk’s Paris offices, France confronts disinformation, platform abuse, and democratic destabilisation
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This week in the French Dispatch 🇫🇷

🇷🇺Operation Storm-1516 targets Emmanuel Macron
🚓Musk’s Paris offices raided before Paris Prosecutor summons

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Russian Disinformation Targets Macron as French Prosecutors Move Against Elon Musk’s X
From the Storm-1516 propaganda operation to raids on Musk’s Paris offices, France confronts disinformation, platform abuse, and democratic destabilisation
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February 8, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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This week in the French Dispatch 🇫🇷

⚔️Lecornu survives two more censure motions
🪖Macron warns Trump of “cascading consequences” for the West
🚫France bans ten far-right British influencers

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Macron Takes On Trump, Lecornu Survives Censure, France Bans Far-Right British Activists
Sébastien Lecornu survives two more censure motions, President Macron warns Donald Trump of “cascading consequences” for the west over Greenland, and France bans ten far-right British influencers
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January 18, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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This week in the French Dispatch

🗜Rachida Dati pressured by far-right Knafo in Paris
🗳️Lécornu eyes March legislative elections following Mercosur censures
⬇️Le Monde poll shows Le Pen falling behind Bardella

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🗳️New Year, New Elections
Rachida Dati feels pressure from far-right Knafo in Paris, Lécornu eyes March legislative elections following Mercosur censures, and Le Monde poll shows Marine Le Pen falling behind Jordan Bardella
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January 11, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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ANALYSIS - a messy European Council, with Ukraine funding, common EU debt, strengthened security, Mercosur drama, and Russian threats affecting EU decision-making, making this one to remember.

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European Council - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
ANALYSIS - a messy European Council, with Ukraine funding, common EU debt, strengthened security, Mercosur drama, and Russian threats affecting EU decision-making, making this one to remember.
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December 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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"Did the EU sell out Ukraine? EUCO recap"

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LIVE SOON: Did the EU sell out Ukraine? EUCO recap
Starting Dec 19 at 9:00 AM EST
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December 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk speaking ahead of #EUCO Summit

"Now we have a simple choice: either money today, or blood tomorrow. I’m not talking about Ukraine only, I’m talking about Europe. This is our decision to make. And only ours.

All European leaders must finally rise to the challenge"
December 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷

🎄It’s time for a Christmas Break
🙅‍♀️Pecresse and Bertrand move against far-right alliance

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Right-Wing Bulwark Against the Far-Right
Time for a Christmas break as Valérie Pecresse and Xavier Bertrand break ranks and attack potential alliance with the far-right
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December 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷

➡️Les Républicains argue over a full right-wing primary
🧑‍⚖️Darmanin promises autonomous Saint-Martin tribunal and prison

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🇫🇷Prisons and primaries
Les Républicains are arguing over a full right-wing primary, the polls behind this, and Gérald Darmanin promising an autonomous Saint-Martin tribunal and prison
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December 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷

🏭Assemblée votes to nationalise ArcelorMittal
💶S&P maintains French A+ rating
🪖Macron announces voluntary national service

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Strengthening the French nation
The Assemblée Nationale votes to nationalise ArcelorMittal, S&P Global maintains French A+ rating, and Emmanuel Macron announces a voluntary national service
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November 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷

🏛️Assemblée rejects income segment of 2026 budget
🪖General warns mayors to prepare for war, extremes complain
📖Sarkozy to release book on agonising 20 days in Prison
🕊️Boualem Sansal is now free

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French budget crisis continues as General Mandon warns mayors to prepare for war
Assemblée rejects income segment of 2026 budget, General Mandon warns mayors to prepare for war, Sarkozy book to cover agonising 20 days in Prison, and Boualem Sansal is now free
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November 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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The full text of General Fabien Mandon's speech at the Congress of Mayors of France, calling on mayors to help prepare the citizenry for a potential war against foreign enemies.

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"If our country falters because it is not ready to accept losing its children" - General Mandon's full speech
The full text of General Fabien Mandon's speech at the Congress of Mayors of France, calling on mayors to help prepare the citizenry for a potential war against foreign enemies.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷

👮Sarkozy out of prison
❌Le Pen’s appeal rejected by Council of State
💬Prefect denounces revisionist tribute to Pétain in Verdun

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Sarkozy Escapes Prison, Le Pen Forced Out, and Pétainist Revisionism
From Nicolas Sarkozy’s unexpected release pending appeal, to Marine Le Pen’s enforced resignation and a Pétainist tribute in Verdun, France faces a pivotal test of judicial independence and truth.
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November 16, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Zack Polanski believes that he can potentially convince Russian President Vladimir Putin to give up his nuclear weapons. Here is why that is not only dangerously foolish, but disqualifying.

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Quick reaction to Zack Polanski’s Putin naïveté
Polanski believes that he can potentially convince Russian President Vladimir Putin to give up his nuclear weapons. Here is why that is not only dangerously foolish, but disqualifying.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷

🏛️French Federal Republic re-enters discussions
🗳️Assemblèe adopts revenue segment of budget

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⏱️Debating the future of France
Senators start pushing toward a Federal French Republic, while the Assemblèe moves forward towards a budget by voting through the revenue segment of the PLFSS
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November 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷

🧑‍⚖️Bardella’s rejected campaign expenditure
🌹Parti Socialiste lose patience, threaten Lecornu

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Lecornu on the brink
Bardella's €240,000 in campaign expenses were rejected as Faure gave Lecornu an ultimatum before bringing down his government.
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October 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷

🔫Lecornu survives two censure motions
📝1,700 amendments for the budget
🚓Someone robbed the Louvre
💬Caption Contest

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Lecornu 2 is go
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu survives two censure motions, 1,700 amendments are submitted for the 2026 budget, and someone robbed the Louvre this morning.
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October 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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The far-left La France Insoumise Motion of Censure against the Lecornu II Government has failed.

With 271 votes in favour, the vote failed by only 18 votes.

This means PM Sébastien Lecornu is now entirely dependent on support from the Parti Socialiste.
October 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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This week in The French Dispatch 🇫🇷

⏱️The French Political Crisis continues
2️⃣Lecornu 2
💶Budget timeline gets tighter

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♻️Lecornu, rebelote
The French political crisis continues as Sébastien Lecornu quits and is renominated, Emmanuel Macron is betrayed by his ally Edouard Philippe's presidential ambitions, and budget deadlines approach
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October 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Fabien Roussel (PCF) has announced that President Emmanuel Macron will make a public declaration this evening on the result of the day's discussions.
October 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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"There is no guarantee of non-censorship on our part" Olivier Faure (PS) warned after meeting Emmanuel Macron today.

"Overall, there has been no clear response from the President of the Republic. The simple postponement of the pension reform has nothing to do with our request"
October 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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According to reports coming out of the Elysée meetings today, there will be no dissolution and we will see a new Prime Minister within "the next few hours".

However, this prime minister, according to Marine Tondelier, will not be from the left.
October 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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🚨French Politician Confidence Poll - October 2025

For each of the following personalities, please indicate whether you have a positive or a negative image of them
October 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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🚨Emmanuel Macron Confidence Poll - October 2025

Do you trust or not trust the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, to effectively tackle the main issues facing the country?

Completely trust - 4%
Somewhat trust - 10%
Not really - 23%
Not at all - 59%
No opinion - 4%
October 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Lecornu is gone, but why did he resign? Will there be a new PM or new elections? Will Macron resign? And what is the destitution procedure that the opposition is trying to force against Macron?

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Lecornu Resigns as France Succumbs to Political Chaos
Lecornu is gone, but why did he resign? Will there be a new PM or new elections? Will Macron resign? And what is the destitution procedure that the opposition is trying to force against Macron?
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October 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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🚨POLL

🇫🇷Hypothetical voting intentions for the 1st round of French legislative elections
October 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM