Questions tagged [france]
Questions about politics and policy of the French Republic.
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How have the people living in "jungle" squatter camps around Calais been obtaining food and medicine?
Does the French government allow those living in the "Jungle" and similar squatter camps to claim benefits?
How have the "jungle people" been obtaining food and having their medical needs met? Have ...
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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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Why does France public health system seem to have so many problems despite its rather big financing?
According to this article, France public health system problems became so big that French President Emmanuel Macron addressed to France’s health workers about them:
French President Emmanuel Macron ...
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Does France consider an HVDC grid connection to French Guyana?
An aspect that seems to plague the idea of a European supergrid for electricity (i.e. the concept of a renewables-dominated electricity grid with continental or even intercontinental ...
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Did any high-level French politician come out against the burkini ban in public swimming pools?
As far as I can tell the Macron government and National Rally (Le Pen) have been against the burkini (thus calling for the ban). The high-profile left-wing candidates appear to have been very good at ...
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Are there indications that the French government considered a carbon fee-and-dividend to assuage the yellow vests?
A key reason for the yellow vest protests was that poorer households would have been proportionally more impacted by the proposed fuel tax increases. Carbon taxes are generally regressive, i.e. impose ...
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Is the National Front's presidential election chances dependent on which party opposes it in the run-off?
In the 2002 French presidential election, Jacques Chirac from the centre-right Rally for the Republic won with a large margin against Jean-Marie Le Pen of the National Front.
I have a suspicion that ...
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Will there be any televised first-round presidential debates in France during the "equal airtime" period that starts on 28 March 2022?
The rule in France in 2022 is that the media must treat verified candidates for the presidency "equitably" until 28 March, and from then on it must treat them "equally". So before ...
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Did the French right wing ever call to vote for left wing candidates prior to 2012?
I am searching for any occasions, prior to 2012 and especially between 1995 and 2007, at which the right wing, especially the French President Jacques Chirac himself, called to vote for left wing when ...
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How did the 4th of July "Salute to America" military parade compare to France's (regular one) on Bastille Day, numerically?
Trump's decision to have a military parade on the 4th of July last year was criticized as being out of character for the US and even costly.
According to Wikipedia, France regularly conducts such a ...
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Why does France have so many bilateral treaties?
According to Miles & Posner (2008) "Which States Enter into Treaties, and Why?"
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America is more than ten times that of Africa. The North American average is driven by ...
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What kind of government organization does Alain de Benoist seek?
Alain de Benoist's main focus is "identity".
This article says that Alain de Benoist is both a "conservative and “socialist””. A wikipedia article says that he is also a radical ...
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Does the North American island of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon still hold a strategic advantage for France?
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon has had strategic significance at various eras in its history, mostly as fishing grounds and a geographical bargaining chip between France and England[1]. It also played a ...
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Why was the recent "Nahel Marzouk Protest" more violent than the BLM protest?
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests began in 2013 as a response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a black teenager. The movement gained national attention ...
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Why was the number of seats that RN gained in the 2022 legislative elections so poorly predicted by pollsters in the runup?
A France24 article from June says
RN’s performance at 90 seats is a “seismic event; an extraordinary result for them”, said Paul Smith, a professor of French politics at Nottingham University. “There ...
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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 ...
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What percentage of Frenchmen still think [hydroxy]chloroquine is an effective remedy against Covid-19?
News from almost two months ago:
A survey released by French polling institute IFOP on 6 April revealed that 59% of the French population believes chloroquine is effective against the new ...
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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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What far-right politicians has Hassan Iquioussen endorsed?
In France, Furor Over a Muslim Reality Show Star Reveals Deeper Tensions says that Hassan Iquioussen has endorsed far-right politicians. While I'm aware of the horseshoe theory in general, I assume ...
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