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Rap-sody of France.

Written by Emily Lewis, Tillmann Osici & Isla Galloni According to Emmanuel Macron, French society is “colour-blind”. However, 41,5% of France voted for the right-wing party Rassemblement National under Marine Le Pen, a woman who believes that an apparent “Islamisation” of France is endangering civilisation and who compared Muslim immigrants to the German soldiers who occupied […]

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Corsica: Macron’s Catalonia?

On the 3rd and 10th December of 2017, the Corsicans were called upon to vote in order to elect the 51 members of the Corsican Assembly who in turn would elect the Executive Council of Corsica. This vote followed the 2015 election which finalised the planned creation of a single region within Corsica; the merge of the two departments of the island: Haute-Corse and Corse-Du-Sud, taking effect from the 1st of January 2018.