Raphaël Glucksmann

Antoine Foucher, l’homme qui veut vous augmenter

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Les idées détonantes de ce spécialiste du travail marquent les esprits de la classe politique. Jusqu’à déclencher une réforme d’ampleur ?

China to lift sanctions on EU lawmakers to unlock trade talks

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Donald Trump’s trade war is pushing China and the EU closer together despite their differences.

White House says it will not return the Statue of Liberty to France

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A French politician said the U.S. no longer deserved the legendary monument.

French politician jokes US should return Statue of Liberty for siding with ‘tyrants’

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Raphaël Glucksmann quips that US should give back 19th-century gift from France over Trump’s approach to UkraineA French European parliament member has quipped that the US should return the Statue of Liberty, which it received as a gift from France abo…

European leaders rally behind Ukraine as US stops aid

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Trump’s decision “pushes the peace further away,” they warn.

Raphaël Glucksmann, MEP: ‘The small steps favored by European leaders are no longer enough, we need a giant leap’

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Under threat from Putin’s Russia and their former ally the USA, European countries now have no other choice for their security and survival than to make the European Union a political, military and economic power, argues the social democrat MEP in an o…

Les 30 couples de pouvoir les plus influents en 2025

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A l’occasion de la Saint-Valentin, POLITICO a listé les couples les plus influents de l’année.

The French left is finally eyeing a comeback

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The Socialists have taken timid steps toward emancipation from far-left firebrand Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

Nos 12 César de l’année politique 2024

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POLITICO décerne, en toute subjectivité, ses prix à ceux qui ont contribué à faire de l’année un grand film politique.

French left fractures are laid bare as search for new PM continues

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The name of the new PM is expected to be announced in the middle of the week. But the left alliance might not survive that long.
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France looks to the EU to prepare for Trump’s return

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“Macron holds an advantage as one of the few European leaders with personal ties to Donald Trump, which could work in his favour,” Gésine Weber, a US-Europe relations specialist at King’s College London, told Euractiv.

Parliament won’t shoot down von der Leyen’s Commission picks 

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A protracted standoff among rival political factions could mean all commissioners squeeze through.

France’s Glucksmann gears up for possible elections next year

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French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann, who leads the French Socialists in the European Parliament, said his Place Publique party would start preparing for possible new legislative elections, which could be held as early as July next year, at a rally near Borde…

French left looks to UK Labour as a model for booting out Mélenchon

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France’s centrist socialists are eyeing Britain’s experience of how to purge the hard left.

The green leftie lawmaker taking on Europe’s economy

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Aurore Lalucq hasn’t always been a fan of financial services firms.

5 things to know about France’s messy election

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What happens now? Did Macron’s snap election work? Is Le Pen finished? POLITICO walks you through the rubble.

Who could be the next French PM?

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The winning left-wing alliance has many options for Prime Minister. None of them will make everyone happy.

Spéciale Aix : brouillard sous le soleil

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What the French election results mean for Le Pen, Macron and Mélenchon

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Emmanuel Macron’s election gamble spectacularly backfired, leaving his centrist alliance trailing the far right and far left.

Macron is like Nero and Pontius Pilate for calling snap election, Glucksmann says

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The sudden vote was a gamble by the French president “to limit the damage” to his own party, a leftist MEP has said.

Raphaël Glucksmann, the man who revived France’s centre-left

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Raphaël Glucksmann, co-founder of the centre-left Place Publique party, emerged from a surprisingly strong showing in the June 9 European elections to find himself a key member of a new leftist alliance in France – one hastily forged to battle the far…

French election: Your guide to a vote that is set to shake the EU and NATO

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Global strategic and financial consequences hang on the outcome of the June 30 and July 7 ballot — a complex, two-round process that needs some explanation.

Forget the far right. It’s the left that may squeeze Macron out of power.

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Macron’s weakened coalition could lose almost all its representation in parliament in the legislative elections, strangling his centrist agenda

‘We can’t leave France to Le Pen’: Leading French left-winger Glucksmann throws weight behind new alliance

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Raphaël Glucksmann, whose Socialist-backed coalition came third in Sunday’s European elections, has emerged as a pivotal figure of France’s political centre-left. His support for the new alliance of the left could swing the balance away from the ascen…

French MEP Glucksmann joins leftwing union New Popular Front, vows clear stance on Gaza, Ukraine

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Raphaël Glucksmann, a French MEP and leading member of the Socialist Party, on Friday said he supported the new leftwing union, the New Popular Front, in a bid to stop the far-right from winning a parliamentary majority in the snap elections that are …

French election descends into madcap reality TV

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The French political class is tearing itself apart with feuding and backbiting ahead of this month’s vote.

Macron attacks ‘extremes’ and conservatives as he enters campaign race

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Emmanuel Macron lashed out at political extremes and the conservative leadership’s decision to ally with the far-right, dubbing them “anti-Republican,” in a two-hour long press conference on Wednesday (12 June) that marked the president’s first steps i…

French left-wing parties build ‘Front populaire’ for Macron’s snap elections

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After President Emmanuel Macron shocked France by calling snap elections on Sunday, national left-wing parties called in a joint appeal on Monday (10 June) for “the formation of a new popular front” to change the country’s political course.  

After Macron’s call for snap election, game of alliances is on

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Following the French parliament’s surprise dissolution announced by President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday [9 June], political manoeuvering has already started to form coalitions that could win the upcoming legislative election.

I cast my first vote in France – just as the country fell for the far right’s siren song of fake nostalgia | Alexander Hurst

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I was proud to vote for a pro-European list. But too many young people believe a hard-right narrative of never-ending catastropheMy first ever time voting was joyous. I was a first-year student at Amherst College in Massachusetts, and on the night of 4…

Who won, who lost and who cocked up in the EU election

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The far right had a good night. Others not so much.

Macron calls snap elections as opposition declares his ‘crushing defeat’ 

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In the face of the far-right’s triumph in the French European elections, President Emmanuel Macron announced he would dissolve the National Assembly and call snap legislative elections.

France: Macron dissolves assembly, calls snap election amid far-right surge

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French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Sunday (9 June) he would dissolve the National Assembly and call snap legislative elections as the far-right nationalists triumphed in the European elections with 32.3% of the vote, against 15.2% for Macron…

French far right obliterates Macron’s camp in EU election

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The French far right headed by Jordan Bardella is projected to grab more than the combined total of the second and third place finishers as it lands its strongest-ever showing in a nationwide vote.

Les Ecologistes vont-ils disparaître du Parlement européen ?

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Selon les derniers sondages, la liste de Marie Toussaint risque la débâcle aux élections dimanche. Un tel résultat pourrait faire les affaires d’Ursula von der Leyen.

4 ways the EU election could reshape French politics

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While a right-wing surge is expected to sweep Europe at the EU election this weekend, the results could have significant political consequences domestically in France.

National issues take centre stage in France’s EU elections, as far right surges in polls

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EU elections in France have been focused on national issues, with very little room for European conversations, as the far-right holds on to a significant lead in voting intentions, and looks to turn the election into an ‘anti-Macron referendum’.

[Alice] Pascal Canfin on the Green Deal: ‘Job done’

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Just a few days to go before the elections on 6 and 9 June, the centre-left electorate has not yet made up its mind, according to Renaissance MEP Pascal Canfin. Designated as the ‘green joker’ or the ‘green deposit’ of Macron, Canfin defends his own re…

European elections: French Socialist Party candidate vows to fight rise of far right

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During a major campaign meeting in Paris, MEP Raphaël Glucksmann rallied a surprising alliance of young voters and the older left-wing generation to push back against the rising far right in Europe.

The future of the far right in Europe, viewed from France

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In the face of a deeply divided left, the French National Rally’s grab for power is easier than many might expect. How is the party reshaping the influence of the far-right at the European level?

French lead candidates show deep splits over recognition of Palestinian state

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Top French candidates for June’s European elections showed just how split they were over the creation of a Palestinian state in a TV debate on Monday night (27 May), with the left-of-centre being clearly in favour and the rest saying the time was not r…

Européennes : Canfin assume son bilan et pense à la suite

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La future majorité au Parlement, la candidature d’Ursula von der Leyen, son rêve de Mario Draghi, le rôle déterminant de Giorgia Meloni, l’eurodéputé livre ses réflexions sur l’après 9 juin à POLITICO.

Left-wing parties rule out alliances with far right ahead of European elections

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Signatories, including MEP Raphaël Glucksmann and Frans Timmermans, promise to ‘combat hatred, racism and xenophobia’Leading left-wing parties across Europe have ruled out alliances with the far right and pledged to “relentlessly combat hatred, racism…

European elections: Raphaël Glucksmann, the man of Ukraine

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With 14% in the polls, Raphaël Glucksmann, the leader of the Socialist Party (PS) list, is making the defence of Ukraine the priority of his campaign, while remaining more nuanced on other international crises, such as the war in Gaza.

France’s socialist rising star reveals EU elections manifesto

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The French Socialist Party is going into the EU elections with a manifesto based on the war in Ukraine, a green transition, social justice and institutional reform, the party’s EU election list leader Raphaël Glucksmann, who has recently been rising in…

In France, we’ve been desperate for a real alternative to Macron and Le Pen. Finally, he’s here | Alexander Hurst

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The June European elections are my first as a French citizen – and they’re in time to vote for the rising star of the left, Raphaël Glucksmann Continue reading…

Raphaël Glucksmann expelled from a demonstration, the left is torn apart over May 1st

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The Socialist Party and Place publique (S&D) lead candidate for the European elections, Raphaël Glucksmann, was chased out of a procession marching in Saint-Etienne for Labour Day on Wednesday (May 1).

French left-wing star hounded from May Day protests

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“These attacks are the result of months of hatred and slander,” MEP Raphaël Glucksmann said after the incident.

Du vent dans les pales

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Rivals move in as France’s leftist firebrand runs into trouble

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Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s latest scandal, in which he compared a French university head to a Nazi, has some on the left considering succession plans.

‘Strategic failure’: France’s Raphaël Glucksmann takes aim at Macron’s geopolitics

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French socialists’ lead candidate Raphaël Glucksmann set out his vision for the future of the EU at a political rally in Strasbourg on Wednesday, hoping to pull the rug under Emmanuel Macron’s ‘Sorbonne II’ speech the next day and establish himself as …

MEPs to watch in the next EU Parliament (if they get elected)

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POLITICO’s guide to key European lawmakers to pay attention to in the run-up to EU election June 6-9.

Europe shrugs off Washington’s TikTok fears

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Though it was previously willing to follow in America’s footsteps, Europe’s response is muted this time around, largely avoiding debate about the app as the EU election looms.  

French PM Attal unleashes Sarkozy-style politics to tackle far-right surge

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Gabriel Attal returns to the themes that led to his meteoric rise in French politics, portraying himself as a man of law and order and a staunch defender of French secularism.

Macron is all talk, no action on Ukraine, says left-wing rival Glucksmann

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Social-democratic lead candidate Raphaël Glucksmann doubled down on his hawkish stance on Ukraine as polls show him closing in on the pro-Macron list ahead of the EU election.

2024 election: Little consensus amongst French candidates on future of EU Green Deal

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The main headlists for the EU elections debated the Green Deal on Tuesday (April 16) in Angers, offering a return to the old left/right division.

Mobilisation post-charbon

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Macron rattled as EU election defeat looms

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Macron cracks the whip as his EU campaign stutters amid a widening gap between centrists and the far right.

Macron’s camp on alert as rival leftist EU list rises in polls

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The joint EU election list formed by the French Socialist Party and leftist “Place Publique” led by Raphaël Glucksmann scored 13% in polls published on Wednesday and could be a cause for concern within Macron’s Renaissance camp that their core voter ba…

By the numbers: The MEPs lighting up TikTok

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Europe’s fringe parties are beating centrists at reaching TikTok users, a data analysis by POLITICO shows.

French EU election list leaders spar over bloc’s electricity market, nuclear

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French candidates topping the lists for the EU elections in June laid bare their differences on nuclear energy and the EU electricity market in the first televised debate of Public Sénat on Thursday (14 March).

France’s Macron faces backlash over u-turn on legal definition of rape

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In a video seen by AFP on Wednesday (13 March), French President Emmanuel Macron said he was in favour of including the notion of consent in the criminal definition of rape – a significant U-turn, given that France opposed the idea in an EU directive i…

Sliver of hope for unity in French left collapses over war in Ukraine

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Whatever hope remained that the French left may find common ground ahead of June’s EU elections has collapsed over the radically different approaches to handling and resolving the war in Ukraine.

France moves to make abortion a constitutional right amid rollbacks in US and Europe

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The constitutional revision, backed by an overwhelming majority of the population, put conservatives and the far right in a tough spot.

France to hold parliamentary debate on Ukraine support amid backlash

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France’s government announced it will hold a parliamentary debate on the situation in Ukraine, with President Emmanuel Macron under heavy fire after he claimed on Monday (26 February) that no options – including sending troops on the ground – should be…

Les 30 couples de pouvoir qui comptent en 2024

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À l’occasion de la Saint-Valentin, POLITICO a listé les couples les plus influents de l’année en politique.

Could Macron’s conservative turn drag EU elections into a national-only campaign?

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French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to defend a “sovereign Europe” ahead of European elections in June, but his recent conservative turn and willingness to mirror the far-right’s rhetoric on issues of identity and immigration may derail his camp…

Macron’s camp fears new threat from left-wing star

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Raphael Glucksmann, who will likely be the Socialist Party’s lead candidate, could attract disaffected voters on Macron’s left flank.

France’s Macron appoints new PM, hoping to boost EU campaign

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Education Minister Gabriel Attal was appointed France’s prime minister on Tuesday (9 January), just months ahead of EU elections, in the hope of setting a new clear political line after heavy political instability that had sapped President Emmanuel Mac…

The mystery of the untouched lawmaker at the heart of Qatargate

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Belgian police place Maria Arena at the heart of the corruption ring in the European Parliament — but have not questioned her.

EU elections: Le Pen’s party takes poll lead

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Latest polling data from France on Tuesday (17 October) puts the nationalist Rassemblement National (RN), with MEP candidate Jordan Bardella in the lead, while President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist and pro-European Renaissance party, lags behind as the …

EU elections: French socialists bury last hope of single left-wing list

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The French Socialist Party (PS) ratified on Thursday evening (5 October) by a large majority the decision to have an independent list for the upcoming European elections, dashing the last hopes of the radical left for a joint list.

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