Saeed Sobhani

Is far right conquering Europe?

Have Nationalists won in European elections?

TEHRAN - Many European politicians prefer not to deny the results of the European Parliamentary elections, especially the victory of anti-Euro-nationalist and nationalist factions in this election. However, it seems that in the near future, traditional European parties will try to determine their own proportions with nationalist movements.

By Saeed Sobhani

what is  Nigel Farage looking  for?

Look at the victory of the Brexit Party in the European elections

Although about one week has passed since the European Parliamentary elections, analysts of international affairs are still analyzing the election. The victory of the Brexit Party in Britain is one of the most important issues that has been addressed in this regard. In this regard, we review some articles published in the Western media (on the victory of the Brexit Party ).

By Saeed Sobhani

Alarm sounded in the EU

TEHRAN- Although the level of political participation in the 2019 parliamentary election was higher than in previous elections, this did not prevent the increase in the number of votes of nationalist and extremist parties. Of course, the Green Party's victory in the European Parliamentary elections will reduce the bitterness of the triumph of nationalist parties in Europe!

By Saeed Sobhani

Macron in a cliff step!

Recent polls in France show that the country's president has not had much chance of winning the European parliamentary elections. This is what has caused intense concern by Emmanuel Macron and his entourage at the Elysées Palace. Without a doubt, if the French president's party defeats in the European parliamentary elections, the probability of Macron's political death will rise. In this case, Macron can withdraw from power before 2020 (French presidential election).

By Marzieh Salehi

Trump's deceiving Macron once again

TEHRAN - While the Islamic Republic of Iran and the European troika held talks on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and how to provide solid assurances by the European Union to maintain the nuclear deal, French President Emanuel Macron once again raised the issue of "changing the JCPOA".

By Hanif Ghaffari

Le Pen slams Macron over JCPOA

Although the President of the French National Front, “Marine Le Pen” has seriously slammed French President Emmanuel Macron for his approach towards the nuclear deal, the criticism has been censored in French media! In other words, only a few French news sources has reflected Le Pen’s words, while others simply ignored them.

By James McAuley

Why does Macron’s presidential approval rating keep falling?

At home and abroad, the name Emmanuel Macron elicits vastly different reactions.

Large parliamentary majority leaves Macron holding all the cards

Emmanuel Macron’s outsider bid to dynamite traditional French party politics appears to have paid off in record time.

By Alan Philps

After the French vote, all eyes are on Germany

It is no surprise that a publisher has announced that an instant biography of Emmanuel Macron, the 39-year-old who will be inaugurated as president of France on Sunday, will have the title The French Exception. That France is unique – in its historic contribution to world politics, culture and of course cuisine – is a well-worn theme, most forcefully expressed in the words of the poet Victor Hugo, “France, without you the world would be alone”.

by Yasmeen Serhan

The center holds firm in France

Independent centrist Emmanuel Macron beat out far-right Marine Le Pen with 65 percent of the vote.

In France, a stark debate and a stark choice

t was the most brutal French presidential debate anyone could remember, two and a half hours of interruptions, insults, sarcasm and invective between the 48-year-old, far-right populist Marine Le Pen and the 39-year-old, centrist upstart Emmanuel Macron.

By Patrick Wintour

What would Macron as France's leader mean for Europe?

A presidential win could offer a last chance for liberal reform of Europe but may prove bad news for Britain’s Brexit trade hopes

By Joschka Fischer

The French election and Europe’s future

A lot can happen between now and the second round of the French presidential election on May 7, so it is still too early to celebrate.

By Oscar Lopez

Will terror-stricken Nice turn to Marine Le Pen for president?

Marine Le Pen chose a pointed location for the first rally since the first round of France’s presidential election: Nice, where a Tunisian-born man killed 86 people last year by driving a truck into beachfront crowds celebrating Bastille Day.

By Alan Philps

Has France outlived the traditional role of its president?

When Charles de Gaulle created the role of president of France almost 60 years ago, the job description was not like other heads of state.

By Zaki Laïdi

The coming french revolution

In a few weeks, France will elect its next president. Given the French executive’s considerable powers, including the authority to dissolve the National Assembly, the presidential election, held every five years, is France’s most important. But the stakes are higher than ever this time.

By Stephanie Hare

Le Pen's cynical Holocaust remarks could reopen old wounds in France

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front (FN) party, told a television audience over the weekend that France was not responsible for the so-called Vél d'Hiv roundup of July 1942, when French police arrested more than 13,000 Jews, detained them for five days in the Vélodrome d'Hiver cycling stadium in Paris and then deported them.

The French election: Change is the only certainty

In less than two weeks’ time, France will go to the polls.

By John Lloyd

There’s still hope for the established political parties of Europe

The political center of Europe might hold after all.

The quality that may sway France’s election

The leading presidential candidate, Emmanuel Macron, is admired for his listening skills, a trait that young French voters cite as the most important leadership quality.

By Dominique Moisi

France’s extraordinary election

Sixty years after the signing of the Treaty of Rome, France is poised to hold an election that could make or break the European Union.

Seyed Mohammad Hashemi

Germany’s September poll overshadowed by Trump, populism 

CNN's Fareed Zakaria on his GPS program said in February that “a senior European leader who attended the Munich Security Conference last week (17-19 Feb.) observed that despite some reassuring words from senior American officials, many of us are convinced that the White House is trying to elect Le Pen in France and defeat Merkel in Germany. And there is heavy talk Stephen Bannon about weakening the European Union and destroying the established order.” 

By Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

Judicial poison could decide France’s fate

Whether the Fillon affair comes as a complete surprise or not to Macron, his belief is that it works to his benefit — though others are not so sure

Le Pen’s siren call to the French people

An unworkable economic plan is mixed with unvarnished xenophobia

How to defeat Le Pen

Marine Le Pen could be France’s next president. Sure, her lead in some polls exaggerates her strength before the field narrows to two candidates -- but voters’ discontent with normal politics isn’t subsiding.

By Alessio Colonnelli

How Francois Fillon's Welsh affair has played into the hands of the far right and Marine Le Pen

Claims that his wife received half a million euros will add to anti-establishment anger.

A defining French vote

Presidential elections this spring could signal the end of the European Union.

By Wolfgang Münchau

France contemplates breaking with an unsustainable status quo

Three presidential candidates offer a radical alternative.