Arabic: France’s New Second Language
Linguistic data supports the increasing presence of North African-origin people in the French population.
Linguistic data supports the increasing presence of North African-origin people in the French population.
In history, there are disputes over interpretation, but there are also things that can be said, and others that cannot. By lumping Napoleon in with Stalin and Hitler, Ridley Scott has crossed a red line.
French enthusiasm for the fund launched to support the policeman who shot young Nahel is not a sign to be taken lightly.
Advanced notice was able to nip violence in the bud in Brussels, but the rioting, inspired by events in France, has also spread to Switzerland and French Guiana.
Since 1881, the idea of preventing future crimes by censoring ideas or events were supposed to have disappeared from French law—but the cancellation of the commemoration proves it is still very much alive.
The polling data comes as the arrival of the Ocean Viking, an NGO migrant transport ship, to the port of Toulon has rekindled the heated debate over migration, which like elsewhere in the world, remains highly charged and highly divisive topic.