A protest movement in France known as the Gilets Jaunes, or Yellow Vests, has become a political crisis for French President Emmanuel Macron. The protest movement began over a hike in a fuel tax, but has grown into something much...
Yesterday, only one week after the presidential election, Francois Hollande walked out of the Elysée palace, and Emmanuel Macron officially became the 8th president of France’s fifth Republic. Macron’s election was a political earthquake in France, with the political newcomer...
Emmanuel Macron won a stunning election victory in France this week, besting by huge margins the far right candidate Marine Le Pen. But if you are like me, you probably did not know too much about Macron — who he...
Fine foie gras is about to become much more expensive. The French Ministry of Agriculture has made the drastic decision this week to slaughter all farmed ducks in the main foie gras region of the country. It’s doing so to...
On April 7, the International Day of Reflection on the Rwandan Genocide, France announced it was going to declassify a trove of documents from that era to help shed light on the events that unfolded over two decades ago. This is a...
