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After the American umbrella, the French umbrella? By Eric Chol – L’Express
It was 1964. The Cold War was in full swing, and the fear of a nuclear conflict was on everyone’s mind. France, already equipped with the A-bomb, was the world’s…
Three years after the return of the Taliban, the hell of Afghan women, by Eric Chol – L’Express
It was “a good decision.” That’s how Joe Biden described the American military withdrawal from Afghanistan three years ago. On August 30, 2021, the last soldier left Kabul airport in…
Biden in the text but with a little something extra, by Eric Chol – L’Express
“Something has changed, the air seems lighter,” murmured Emmanuel Macron the day after the Olympic Games, quoting Barbara. Undeniably, the American Democratic camp, gathered from August 19 to 22 in…
Donald Trump, the miracle worker, by Eric Chol – L’Express
Before the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, during a rally on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, the last president to be shot was Ronald Reagan, a former B-movie actor and…
After the second round, the time for reconstruction has come, by Eric Chol – L’Express
For years, we suspected weaknesses. We could see fine cracks, without paying attention. And then these cracks became bigger, until they turned into fissures. Here in the countryside, there in…
Little useful reminders before going to vote for the second round, by Eric Chol – L’Express
Unsurprisingly, the expected explosion did occur on June 30 at the polls. After demolishing the classic parties in the name of “political overcoming”, Emmanuel Macron, by pressing the “dissolution” button,…
the responsibility camp must get its act together, by Eric Chol – L’Express
There will always be time, on July 8, to open the trial of Emmanuel Macron. Considering that this monarch president played the fate of French democracy on a roll of…
France in the second division, it’s now, by Eric Chol – L’Express
“It’s 1981 to the power of 10.” Listening to Bruno Le Maire, minister on reprieve at Bercy, the French economy will not support the budgetary big bang announced in the…
Mr. Macron, if you want to prevent July 7 from looking like a dark Sunday…, by Eric Chol – L’Express
“I will not dissolve the National Assembly at this time.” This sentence is the one written by Charles de Gaulle, on a first draft of his speech of May 30,…
what Bercy would have us believe…, by Eric Chol – L’Express
It is the story of a country in the European Union, which was doing rather poorly economically at the start of the decade. Like its neighbors, this state, seven times…