What Conservative Spain Has in Common with Putin
Both are insecure.
Both are insecure.
Without a majority in the National Assembly, the president can still make foreign policy.
And what it can learn from the Dutch.
The president’s second term could be a lot harder than his first.
Charles de Gaulle’s two-party system has broken down.
Takeaways from the first presidential voting round in France.
The electoral system, the candidates, the key issues and the most likely outcomes.
Whoever wins the presidency, France will probably have five years of divided government.
Policies include leaving NATO, legalizing cannabis, raising the retirement age and renationalizing motorways.
The war in Ukraine has discredited Italian anti-Americanism.
What the French president has, and hasn’t, got done in five years.
Foreign journalists thought this Dutch finance minister would be different.
The offer is seen as political calculation by his opponents.
The shift in public opinion suggests a way out of the decade-long dispute with Spain.
Countries had already been spooked by Donald Trump’s verbal attacks on NATO.