The French system of allocation of power is pretty strange: despite the very first article of its constitution stipulating that “Its organisation is decentralised.”, France is one of the least decentralised countries in the democratic world, even for a unitary state. The current political establishment was set up in the middle of the Algerian War…
Everybody’s talking about the current French elections, but as far as I can see, no one is talking about the effect these elections could have on the Andorran monarchy. The President of France, whomever it is, automatically becomes a coprince of Andorra; a landlocked microstate in the Pyrenees, situated between Spain and France. The coprince…
The French regional elections were fairly hectic this year. The far-right Rassemblement National (RN) almost won the region of Provence-Alps-Côte d’Azure, Macron’s En Marche (EM) did pretty badly, a worryingly low number of people actually voted, and the centre saw a big resurgence. Here in Alsace the candidat from Les Républicains, Jean Rottner secured a…