Questions tagged [france]
Questions about politics and policy of the French Republic.
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What is the point of triggering of a national snap election immediately after losing the EU elections?
French President Emmanuel Macron dissolved parliament and called a fresh election.
The only justification sounds a little bit vague:
“France needs a clear majority in serenity and harmony. To be ...
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Why is there a strong drive for undocumented migration, from France, to the United Kingdom?
Since years, undocumented migrants camp in Calais and try to get to the United Kingdom. In recent days, media have reported this has increased. For example, BBC News.
I can understand why ...
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Why is there an official retirement age?
France strikes bid to halt Macron's rise in retirement age:
President Macron's reform programme faces a make-or-break moment, as
French unions stage a day of mass strikes and protests on Thursday
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Why is France involved in Mali?
This month France has sent ground troops to and bombed northern Mali. This feels like the first time in a while that a country besides the US has stuck its neck out to fight violent Islamist groups ...
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What are the options for a government facing massive protests over seemingly unsustainable economical measures?
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France is currently facing nationwide strikes due to pension system reformation discussions. According to France24, there seems to be a debate over the opportunity of such a reform:
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Which countries have largely copied article 49 para 3 of the French constitution?
Roughly speaking, article 49.3 of the French constitution allows the government to pass a law without an explicit vote in the legislative assembly by "committing government's responsibility"....
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Can François Fillon be replaced as candidate of The Republicans to the presidential elections?
Few months ago, François Fillon was elected candidate of the right wing party The Republicans in France to the presidential elections in 2017.
These days, however, he is facing severe problems due to ...
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Do we know a lower bound or the exact number of 3-way races in France's 2nd round of elections in 2024?
As RFI claims & explains:
After Sunday's first round of voting, as many as 306 of the 577 seats in France's National Assembly could be decided in three-way races.
In the last parliamentary ...
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Why does the U.S. left-wing party hate being called "socialist", but in France the left-wing party proudly calls itself "the Socialist Party"?
Why does the main left-wing party in the United States (the Democratic Party) hate being called "socialist", but in France the main left-wing party proudly calls itself "the Socialist Party"?
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Has the Niger junta explained why they expelled French but not US troops?
The Niger junta that took power this summer expelled French but not US troops. From what I can tell, France had about 1,500 troops there, and the US has about 1,100 (or maybe just 600--sources differ ...
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Can an extra nomination in the French presidential election prevent a person's candidacy?
In order to be a candidate in a French presidential election, a person must obtain at least 500 "présentations" or "parrainages" from among tens of thousands of elected ...
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Why does the French election have a runoff election instead of preferential voting
In the recent French election, there will now be another vote between Macron and La Pen to determine a winner. A lot of other countries seem to have this system. Elections are not cheap and having ...
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Why do industrial actions in France seem to happen more frequently, visibly, and intensely than in other EU states?
Obviously asking due to ongoing protests against pension reform in France.
This might be just a perception issue, but it seems France has a reputation for having more frequent, visible, and intense ...
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Is there evidence of on-going legislation specifically targeting Muslims in France?
In 2004, France banned wearing conspicuous religious symbols in schools. In particular, this bans the Muslim headscarf, the Jewish kippah, and the Sikh turban. The turban has now been exempted as ...
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Why is there so much worry about France potentially leaving the EU?
I've kept reading and listening on information and opinions about the upcoming French election and one of the main issues that keep coming up is the future of France in the EU. I know that many of the ...
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What is the position of the main Spanish Catalonia independence movements on French Catalonia?
The geographic area of Catalonia is not limited to Spain but extends to France, corresponding roughly to the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales. This area is referred as Northern Catalonia.
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What is the French support for Frexit (France leaving EU) and why?
But the french also hate the EU. No more than 25% of them still supports it. If such a referendum were to happen in france, the result for leave would probably be much higher - comment on another ...
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How often is Article 49.3 of the French Constitution used?
According to recent news:
On Thursday, French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announced that the government was resorting to Article 49.3 of the Constitution to force the bill through parliament ...
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What political benefit would there be in stronger ties with Putin and Russia?
I was reading this article about Marine Le Pen stating that
[Ms. Le Pen] vows to... strengthen ties Vladmir Putin's Russia.
What is so significant about strengthening ties with Russia, and why ...
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Is there any modeling on who would be the Condorcet winner in the French Presidential election?
The French Presidential elections use FPTP with a run off round, so directly determining the Condorcet winner is obviously impossible. But I wonder if pollsters have done any modeling to determine the ...
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Macron's "lead climbers" (vs. trickle down)
Are there more details on Macron's vision of how tax cuts will positively affect (French) society? I found a story from last year his rejection of the well-known “trickle-down” economics narrative, ...
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Has there been any attempt to prevent false information from spreading? (legal fact check)
The French President, Emmanuel Macron, said during his new year press conference he would soon propose laws preventing false information from spreading on the web ("fausses nouvelles", more or less ...
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Question about democracy and regime - Przeworski et al
In Przeworski et al.'s Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990 (page 18-19), the authors stated:
... by "regime" we mean the system of ...
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Are there any polls in France on further EU expansion in the Balkans?
On October 18, the BBC reported that
At the EU summit, French President Emmanuel Macron led a small number of countries in rejecting the Western Balkan countries from moving forward with their ...
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Who organised the Belleau Wood cemetery visit on November 10th 2018?
Was yesterday’s United States visit to the Aisne-Marne American cemetery in Belleau Wood, fifty miles east of Paris, organised by President Macron?
In other words: was it a bilateral event, or merely ...
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Is there any evaluation of solidarity tax impact in France?
Romania's Government has changed recently and the new one tries to introduce a solidarity tax:
The Romanian Government wants to introduce a new type of tax called
the solidarity tax, which will ...
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Is the French public opinion more favorable to Muslims than to Jews?
It's been suggested in an answer to a related question that the French public opinion is more favorable to Muslims than to Jews (due in part to the larger presence of Muslims in France). I for one ...
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French Election 2024 - seat share based on first round only
How would the 577 seats of the French National Assembly have been allocated if the first round of voting was the only round and the candidate with most votes in the first round only would have been ...
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How many 3rd-placed candidates does Macron's party have vs the LFI?
A proposed deal/strategy to block an RN win in the 2nd round:
The high turnout on Sunday means some 300 constituencies are now facing potential three-way run-offs which, in theory, favour the RN.
To ...
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Why did France start issuing non-transferable taxi licenses in 2015?
According to a 2016 EU document taxi licenses issued in France before 2015 remain transferable, but those issued thereafter are not.
Under the French system, the licences are called “parking ...
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Did Macron win any of the young left-wing voters in the 2nd round of the elections?
If one reads France24's vignettes of the young, left-wing voters before the 2nd round of the 2022 French presidential election, you could almost swear none were going to vote Macron:
"Macron or ...
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(Why) did the central French government deem the lifting of the burkini ban in Grenoble but not in Rennes an "unacceptable provocation"?
Unless the VOA is mistaken, Rennes lifted their public-swimming pools burkini ban a few years ago (seemingly in 2019) without causing much outcry.
A few years ago, local authorities quietly changed ...