Staunch conservative Bruno Retailleau has quickly shown his hardliner credentials as France’s new interior minister by taking a tough stance on immigration, crime and defending secularism.
Sounkamba Sylla reportedly reaches compromise after France’s strict laws on secularism threatened to bar herA French sprinter is expected to swap her headscarf for a cap in order to participate in the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics, in a comprom…
Emphasizing Europe’s “Judeo-Christian” heritage and looking only to antiquity betrays the European project, excluding the various peoples and entities that shaped the Continent.
Voters in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis — home to many immigrants and Muslims — fear the surging far right but also resent Macron’s presidency.
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.
France’s Gaza diplomacy is also about about navigating France’s internal political and religious divisions, which have been a frequent source of domestic tensions.
This failed policy was sold as a defence of French secularism. Instead it has opened the floodgates of intolerance and become a tool for exclusionIn the early 2000s, I decided to commit to feminism, so I joined a feminist campaigning group, convinced I…
Opposition to identity politics isn’t confined to the cultural right.
Gabriel Attal says state will file a complaint against student over accusation against principal who had to resign for his safetyThe French prime minister, Gabriel Attal, has defended French secularism following the resignation of a Paris school princi…
The French football star had filed a complaint against France’s Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin after the politician said Benzema was linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Feud between former Real Madrid star and France’s Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin escalates.
Secularists and traditionalists are at loggerheads over the proper place for a crib – and it’s a godsend for the far rightChristmas wouldn’t be Christmas in France without a good old-fashioned brouhaha about cribs and candles in official buildings. The…
France’s president is denounced by all sides after lighting a Hanukkah candle at the Elysée Palace.
Hanukkah candle sparks controversy in France.
Show excluded from ‘pass culture’ scheme that allows teachers to take groups to cultural events for free French officials have prevented schools from taking pupils for free to a musical about Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, claiming it would contravene r…
French interior minister again says star is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, a claim denied by Benzema’s lawyer.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said the star was ‘linked’ with the Muslim party. Benzema’s lawyer said that’s not true.
Dress codes should not be imposed on women, spokesperson says, after Paris Games ban affecting French athletesThe UN has weighed in on France’s debate about secularism and women’s clothing, saying women should not be forced to abide by dress codes, aft…
State council rejected complaints that ban was discriminatory and could incite hatred against MuslimsFrance’s top administrative court has upheld a government ban on girls in state schools wearing abayas, rejecting complaints that it was discriminatory…
Girls who refused to remove banned garment given letter saying ‘secularism is not a constraint, it is a liberty’, says ministerOn the first day of the new academic year French schools sent home dozens of girls for refusing to remove their abayas, the e…
But the ban on the Islamic clothing in schools enters tricky legal territory.
The ban on the abaya in schools, announced by French Education Minister Gabriel Attal, has highlighted the left’s divisions over secularism and its implementation, while the radical left has vowed to take the decision to court.
Ban on loose-fitting dresses worn by some Muslim women provokes row over secularismFrance is to ban girls in state schools from wearing abayas, sparking a fresh row over secularism and women’s clothing.The education minister, Gabriel Attal, said that t…
French conservatives on Monday (28 August) applauded the government’s decision to ban children from wearing the abaya, the loose-fitting, full-length robes worn by some Muslim women, in state-run schools, but the move also drew criticism and some mockery.
