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    Geoffroy Clavel

    Geoffroy Clavel

    Journaliste politique

  • Based On TV Images, Front National Leader Decides Refugees Are 99% Men

    While French President Francois Hollande announced on Monday night that France would welcome 24,000 additional migrants and refugees over the next two years, far right leader Marine Le Pen on Tuesday denied the humanitarian nature of the crisis that is forcing tens of thousands of Syrians to seek refuge in Europe. Among the waves of people knocking on the European Union’s doors, "political refugees are the absolute minority," Le Pen said on RMC (Radio Monte-Carlo).

  • How France's National Front Looks To Capitalize On The Greferendum

    In the wake of the referendum announcement, the National Front hopes to capitalize on the Greek example as it already has on the future British referendum so that it can promote its own strategy for the euro and a European Union exit.

  • Ten Years After Iraq, France Not Afraid Of War

    Ten years after the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom on March 20, 2003, which succeeded in ousting the dictator Saddam Hussein but plunged Baghdad into a decade of instability, France stands behind its refusal to participate in the coalition that sent more than one million soldiers, mainly Americans, to fight on Iraqi soil. According to an exclusive poll by the YouGov institute for HuffPost France and Itélé, 46 percent of French respondents believe that France was involved “as much as necessary” in the conflict, versus only 7 percent who consider its investment was insufficient. At the time, Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin’s speech at the UN marking France’s refusal to support the war in the Middle East gained rare national consensus and was applauded from one end of the French political spectrum to the other.

  • Lessons Learned From Sunday's French Elections

    If the Socialist candidate, who took first place on Sunday, also comes out on top on May 6 through the support of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Eva Joly, the National Front party's unprecedented gains could dramatically alter France's political landscape and the parties’ strategic objectives going forward. Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Aquitaine -- the Socialist candidate François Hollande leads in more regions and departments than most could count.

  • French Presidential Candidate: 'Finance' Is My Adversary

    "I am ready." These few words, slipped into a speech that ran for nearly 90 minutes, summed up the message François Hollande tried to convey Sunday before some 25,000 supporters crowded into the Parc des Expositions at Le Bourget, just outside of Paris. In a hall filled to overflowing, fired up by the fervor of hypermotivated supporters, crushed by flags and posters, drowned out by the noise of vuvuzelas and foghorns, the Socialist candidate has undeniably succeeded in his show of power. From the opening of the festivities, led by Yannick Noah's upbeat concert, to the "Marseillaise" finale, sung on the platform by young supporters, far from the Socialist Party "elephants," there was not one false note in the program of the leader of the Left.