François Picard

3 weeks ago | france24.com | Rebecca GNIGNATI |Elisa Amiri |François Picard

For now, the mayor of Istanbul’s center-left CHP party calling for weekly Wednesday rallies and consumer boycotts to keep up the pressure, this despite a widening crackdown. What makes this movement different to all the others which have tried and failed to unseat a leader of 22 years, who despite inflation and incumbent fatigue retains a solid base. So, going forward, is time on Recep Tayep Erdogan’s side?

3 weeks ago | france24.com | Rebecca GNIGNATI |Elisa Amiri |François Picard

Injustice is in the eye of the beholder: take Romania and Turkey where front runners have also been recently barred under very, very different circumstances. Whenever a politician's convicted, it's a stress test for institutions and rule of law. In the case of Marine Le Pen, she's got the backing of a growing media echo chamber. How far will crying foul carry the far-right in France? Donald Trump never went to trial for allegedly trying to forcibly overturn his 2020 loss.

3 weeks ago | france24.com | François Picard

The Danish leader is representing one of over 30 NATO countries present in Paris for a "coalition of the willing" summit on Ukraine. But those 32 nations do not include the United States. Co-hosts France and the UK know they can't deploy peacekeepers over the heads of a reluctant Trump administration. So what's the workaround? And with Washington now repeating what sounds like Kremlin talking points, how grave a danger is there not just for Ukraine, but for all of Europe?

4 weeks ago | msn.com | François Picard

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4 weeks ago | france24.com | François Picard

If Europeans didn't get the memo in Munich when JD Vance preferred a meeting with the pro-Putin far-right leader Alice Weidel to one with Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz... then they're cordially invited to read what he says in private about an old continent populated by freeloaders. If Signalgate's still not enough... then how about a sitting vice-president announcing an uninvited visit to Greenland? A 'very aggressive' posture, says Denmark's prime minister...