Patrick Edery
Director of the European strategy and development consultancy Partenaire Europe, editorialist, columnist and speaker on French radio, press, TV and internet media in France and Poland.
Would De Gaulle be pro-Russian today?
This question may seem incongruous to many of our European readers for whom the General is the symbol, like Churchill, of resistance to invasion, of refusal to submit to the law of the strongest. The Second World War showed us that there are two schools of thought when faced with an invader.
Patrick Edery
Interview with Loup Viallet
Russian imperialism seeks to take our continent in its stranglehold by destabilising our external borders. Putin is applying a strategy of chaos in which we are collectively the target.
Patrick Edery
France: Constitutionalisation of abortion deserves a referendum
The French radical left (the "La France Insoumise" party) followed by almost all parties on the left, centre and right is going through all the steps to pass a constitutional bill to enshrine "the freedom of women to terminate their pregnancy in the Constitution".
Patrick Edery
Country Report: France, February 2023
Throughout February, France has been gripped by the "Pierre Palmade" affair, named after a famous comedian and showbiz star known to all French people. On 10 February, his car violently collided with another car whose passengers were a six-year-old boy, his father and his sister-in-law, a young pregnant woman.
Patrick Edery
France can thank the heroes who destroyed the Nord Stream I & II pipelines
For several months now, everyone has been wondering about the nationality of those who destroyed the two gas pipelines linking Russia to Germany. Were they American? British? Danish? Finnish? Norwegian? Polish? Swedish? Russian? Ukrainian? And why not French?
Patrick Edery
The strange case of Yvan Colonna – the rule of law which excludes Corsica
Apart from the fact that Colonna’s arrest and death helped Presidents Sarkozy and Macron at key moments, the rule of law was absent throughout the investigation leading to Yvan Colonna's arrest and death.
Patrick Edery
Country Report: A Surreal France, March 2023
The main news in France during the month of March was of course the demonstrations against the pension reform. These overshadowed a fairly large number of surreal news items, each of which would deserve a thorough analysis, as they are so symptomatic of the flaws in the French society.