With coronavirus infections soaring, deaths nearing 100,000 and the vaccine rollout sputtering, frustrated French people feel they’re right back where they started.
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Macron Returns France to Lockdown as Covid-19 Vaccinations Lag
The French president rebuffed his advisers in January and opted against more restrictions, betting that inoculation would curb the pandemic. Instead, a new wave of infections is battering France.
A 3rd National Lockdown Seems Likely in France as Hospitals Are Overwhelmed
President Emmanuel Macron addressed the country tonight as infections surged, hospitals swelled with patients and the virus reached into classrooms.
France Has ‘Overwhelming’ Responsibility for Rwanda Genocide, Report Says
The report, commissioned by President Emmanuel Macron, found that France’s colonial mind-set had blinded it to the atrocity. The authors, though, cleared France of complicity.
A French City Dropped Meat From Kids’ Lunches. The Nation Erupted.
The Green party mayor of Lyon, a gastronomic capital, introduced no-meat menus in schools. Let the anguish begin.
Can France’s Far Right Rise to Power? One Mayor Shows How.
In the southern city of Perpignan, voters who had long built a dam against the far right turned in the last election. Some wonder whether it’s a harbinger of things to come.
Lifting Veil on Algeria War Trauma, France Eases Access to Archives
Historians say there are still impediments to their research on the Algerian War, which remains sensitive in France, and point to the resealing of tens of thousands of once-public documents last year.
Eyeing Re-election, Macron Walks a Tightrope Above Swirling Crises in France
The French president wants to change Europe, redefine his country and win re-election. But first he needs to overcome the biggest economic and social crisis since World War II.
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In Reconciliation Act, Macron Acknowledges Truth of Algerian Lawyer’s Death
The president admitted that Ali Boumendjel did not die by suicide, as France had previously claimed, but was killed by French troops during the Algerian war of independence.