According to some pollsters (and here, mainly TNS Sofres), the 2007 French presidential election offers the following new features: It is first time in 20 years that the presidential election won’t take place after a period of”cohabitation” (where the President and the Prime Minister/Parliament belong to different political camps). What that means is that candidates [...]

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The French presidential elections will take place in the Spring of 2007: the first round will be on April 22, the second on May 6. This will be followed by parliamentary elections taking place again in two rounds, June 10 and 17. There will be plenty of candidates, left and right, but today we focus [...]

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Welcome to the blog of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. On this blog, GMF staff, fellows, and outside scholars and practitioners  will contribute their thoughts on current events dominating the transatlantic agenda and identify issues of rising importance. All entries on this blog represent the authors and do not necessarily represent the [...]

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