The French Dispatch

Fact-based reporting and analysis of French, European, and wider global politics.

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🏙️A new Paris metropole
🏛️Lyhanna affair causes institutional shame
Bernadette Chirac has passed away

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France and Germany want to gut the EEAS, but dismantling the EU's diplomatic service won't fix EU foreign policy. The problem is structural.

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Yuliia Mendel and the Anatomy of a Disinformation Campaign

How Zelenskyy's former spokesperson became a vector for Russian disinformation, and why Tucker Carlson's platform was the point.

By Yuriy Boyechko from @hopeforukraine

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🌍France remains most attractive EU country for foreign investment
🇮🇱Ben-Gvir banned from France
🏛️Attal announces 2027 Presidential run

https://t.co/F8O3JocaxV

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Philippe's Le Havre problem just became a Presidential problem

The PNF has referred the Cité numérique file to a juge d'instruction. The centrist favourite is now fighting to stay clean.

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Europe faces threats on every front, and the six largest economies have stopped waiting for unanimity.

The €11 trillion question is whether they can pull off federal economic policy without a treaty.

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🌍The French Dispatch @ @GLOBSEC Forum 2026
🧑‍⚖️EU prosecutors open fraud probe into Bardella
🇮🇱France investigates potential election interference from Israel
📜500 local officials call for Attal presidential candidacy
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🪖Young people rush to national military service
🌹Faure pushes for a single left-wing candidate
🇫🇷Macron: largest French military exercise since Cold War “a clear signal”

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📢Glucksmann goes solo for 2027
🇬🇷Macron: France will stand by Greece if threatened
🇮🇷Macron reassures public on energy shortages

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🇱🇧French soldier killed in Lebanon
🇮🇷Macron and allies push to open Hormuz

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How Donald Trump's colossal failure in Iran manages to hand Tehran exactly what it wants

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🇮🇷French ship passes through Strait of Hormuz
🧑‍⚖️MEP Rima Hassan arrested for terrorism apologia
🇯🇵🇰🇷Macron scores wins across Japan and Korea

https://t.co/orPInVZrdL

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📊Presidential Polling update
📈Macron’s polling numbers jump over Iran
💼Alstom wins €1 billion mega contract in Serbia
🏦French 2025 deficit lower than expected

https://t.co/VaSqFFlPjR

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🗳️Second Round - Paris Municipal Election
(IFOP Estimation)

Emmanuel GRÉGOIRE (PS) - 51.00%
Rachida DATI (LR) - 37.00%
Sophia CHIKIROU - 14.10%

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🗳️Second round of municipal elections takes place today
🤝Dati reliant on far-right vs socialist Grégoire in Paris
⚓Macron unveils “France Libre” aircraft carrier

https://t.co/AT0dwrm4A2

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🇮🇷Europe on the Brink
📣Far-right attacks LFI event seeking “justice for Quentin”
🙅‍♂️Renaissance pulls support for Les Républicains over far-right alliance
📈Fitch maintains French A+ debt rating

https://t.co/ROVHCeWN2I

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🇺🇸Trumps Diplomat Kushner blocked from government meetings in Paris
⬇️La France Insoumise is in deep trouble following far-left violence

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🚓Seven arrested for Quentin Deranque murder
💬La France Insoumise losing ground in the Quentin D. case
🇪🇺Macron and Merz call for joint response to Trump tariffs

https://t.co/gjE1JHvh4I

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🇳🇪Niger prepares for war with France
⚖️ Far-right activist killed by far-left
🤝Pécresse calls for primary for right and centre

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

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