This is a valid point of view. However, in the current french constitution, as it, the elected president has the final authority over the army, which even without the majority at the parliament makes the president able to manage foreign policy. (Sure the parliament can not vote the budget which would technically limit this power).

If Macrons wants to send troops to Ukraine next year, Le Pen, won’t have many way to stop him. Well, the parliament can not votes the budget which would strongly limit the ability of the “troops” to work effectively, but that’s it. In the previous case of cohabiation, it wasn’t a big proble, conservative and socialists are reasonable person who can work together well enough to find arrangement on foreign policy. Think can be more complex with neo-liberals like Macron and far-righter like Le pen

Interesting, I always thought the Schufa was a government service. But isn’t it way lighter than the US “rating” ?

pretty sure that having “credit agencies” keeping track of people credit history is a huge violation of GDPR and would be illegal in the EU. At least I never heard about that. The only similar things I know is the central bank keeping a listing of “unpaid credit” which make ban you from getting any new credit for a certain time. (And as it’s a public institution, you have the right to contest any writing there in court if it 's not justified, stuff like identity theft being a classic one)

A TV scenarist would have written that plot, we would have thought it’s not realistic, especially that part on the right wing, with that posh lady (Ms Pecresse, head of the Parisian region) rolling up her sleeve to kick traitor Ciotti out.

Plot twist, in most of these cities, it was already hard to reach 30 due to the traffic. However, a similar movement happens in rural area too with a speed limit at 30, a big speed-bump, and a speed camera to make sure you don’t go faster

What the fuck ? Quoi la baise ?

Looks like that at best France won’t have a majority, at worst we’ll have Ms Le Pen as a Prime minister (France is a semi presidential regime, and if the President doesn’t have the majority, most of the power shifts toward the prime minister, with a president only relevant for international policy)

In the East sea of China

I don’t want to sound like a tankie supporting winnie the poo, but I assume the Dutch would do the same if a Chinese frigate passes by the North Sea.

Dutch have the right to sail in international waters, and Chinese have the right to send a fighter to check them out

High interest rate,

Competition starts to offer decent electric car

People who can afford a fancy car already got one

Musk behaves like a fascists

Not a surprise

Actually, the french secularist law were written more than 100 years ago to kick out nun and priest from public school.

I am curious on how school can skip the whole gender identity part considering how central it is in social science and life-science.

i like the idea in saying that boys and girls are the same and that it doesn’t impact who they are more than having blonde hair or large feets. However, if you through art/litterature/history you can quickly find out that men and women aren’t treated the same. If you to basic biology, you come to some “difference between boys and girls”, and may want to discuss which of these difference are biology, and which one are sociology.

Then, it’s not like LGBT and intersex individual are novelty, and that kids won’t ask question about them (selves). So again something pretty hard to skip. To take medieval history, I don’t know how much British kid know about the “acursed king” and the 100 years war, but Edward II being more sexually interested in Lord Despenser than in his wife Isabel the she wolf from France played a big role in these historical sequence of events

TIL that Rolls Roys is doing SMR.

I am pretty curious on how this new trend of SMR will evolve in 20 years, I can see how it can be simpler and faster to build than full scale plant. However, I am not sure you’d save by multiplying the NIMBY to deal with and the whole support staff.

Great news, let’s hope that both the next generation tank and the next generation plane will work. Unfortunately, we need some weapon, and I am rather having a sovereign weapon industry than buying them to a foreign power.

I am curious about how much the AI and laser techology are a buzz word rather than a new technology. I can’t imagine modern tank not using laser to measure distances or having any form of image/data processing software

I hope that these declarations will be sufficient to bring back Putin to the negotiation table

to be fair, USA is very protectionist as well,

I’m having good laugh watching Americans call everyone protectionism but passing a law to force foreign company to sell their social media to an US company.

that produce legislation not 110% beholden to economic interest of corporations

France has a massive Fashion industry with Bernard Arnault competing for the richest person on the planet position. But even a brand like Kenzo is far from being fash fashion (Just checked on Zalando, kids T-shirt at 100 EUR, no wonder why the owner is so rich) so it’s not hindering the biggest French corpo.

Unfortunately you’re not wrong that many people don’t care 'bout the European election, on the other hand it means that there is a big intersection between the people who care about the European election and the ones who want to see more support for Urkaine, and for a political party it’s still an election with MEP and assistant positions to get, this is crucial to keep the party alive and prepare the post-Macron era.

However, even though the power balance in the EU is too much in favour of the council rather the parliament, there is tons of laws coming from the European level (GDPR is a big one, but recently the EP voted against a medical visit for the driver licence) so this election has a big weight

European elections are ongoing, and that’s definitely a move to tell to pro-European to not vote for “certain parties”.

You’re absolutely right that if we look at the material given, for once Germany is leading the “European defence”. And that realistically, moving “troops” to Ukraine will impact other front where french troops are fighting. So I am not sure which part of it is just word and whether it’ll change much the big picture. That said, I can see how even non combat soldier could be a drastic change. If you send military mechanics with the tanks you let Ukraine having more combat troops and avoid long retraining of support staff.

How likely is she to be elected there in the next decade ? Would be quite ironic to have the officer who removed the today to welcome her in a decade

Full time political activist is a legit job. But she’s only 21, at this age many people are student and don’t make any money

So after closing the nuclear power plants to open coal plants they want to foget about the ban on petrol-powered car ? CDU immer gut fuers Klimat.