Tag Archive for: "France"
A green economy requires more than subsidies

In recent years, many policymakers thought they had found the perfect formula for implementing climate-friendly policies without facing difficult political trade-offs: massive subsidies. This strategy, often associated with US President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, …

Macron faces resistance in New Caledonia

France is facing resistance as it prepares to host a meeting of New Caledonian parties in Paris from 4 September. Independence parties reject the third independence referendum of December 2021. A visit by French President …

Macron’s Gaullist foreign policy

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year galvanised the West against not only the Kremlin, but also other rivals, especially an increasingly assertive China. But last month, French President Emmanuel Macron headed to Beijing, where …