This new fuss the Le Pens have orchestrated about their difficulty in collecting the 500 signatures the law requires of every candidate for the presidency of the Republic is a trap.

For one of two things is true.

Either the Le Pens are not play-acting;...

In Europe, the event didn't cause as much of a stir as it should have.

Yet it's at least as important as the recent performances of Hollande and Sarkozy.

In a word, Mme Le Pen, third in the race for the presidency, hot on the heals of the other...

Unfortunately, I'll have to return to the case of the Front National and the fascination it seems to exercise, once again, on the left as well as the right, on the working class no less than on conservative voters.

For the time being, notwithstanding a more detailed analysis but without...

Could we be living in an era of such madness, one that has lost its compass and its points of reference to such an extent that this affair of one of the three major rating agencies' withdrawal of America's and then France's triple "A" has taken on such importance?

Among its nations, Europe is banishing Greece for failing -- it's true, big time -- to fulfill the rules of good economic and financial governance.

A decade ago, it excommunicated Austria -- and with good reason -- when its conservative leaders entered into a coalition with Jorg Haider, leader of...

Are these people really incapable of comprehending? Or are they just pretending not to understand?

The law whose purpose is to penalize negationist revisionism, voted before Christmas by the French parliament, does not propose to write history in the place of historians. And this for the simple reason that...

This is the man who took it upon himself to restore and glorify the tomb, on the banks of Lake Tiberias, of Rabbi Meir Baal Haness, also known as the miracle worker, one of the principle figures who recorded the Talmud, in the 2nd century A.D.

This is the...

Blandine Barret-Kriegel's book, La République et le prince moderne [The Republic and the Modern Prince] (PUF) was just published in France and is an important book and in many ways a timely one, given the current ideological and political situation.

1. It offers the first truly convincing explanation of the...

Geneva.

It was here, eight years ago, that the famous Geneva Plan, conceived and signed by prominent figures of Palestinian and Israeli civil society, with the support of Swiss and French citizens, was launched.

And it is here on the 22nd of November, at the same university, perhaps before...

Rome and Athens, epicenters of the economic and financial storm currently shaking Europe and the world.

You read it right: Rome and Athens.

In other words, the two cradles of Europe.

Two of the three sources (Jerusalem, thank heavens, not yet included) of its ethics and its...

Bernard Schalscha, this former Trotskyist at my magazine, La Règle du jeu who, for the last eight months, has been gathering information coming out of Syria revealing the savagery of repression in Homs, Hama, and Qousseir, is the one who introduced me to a recent exile of the country. The...

What should we think of this sharia affair? Could it be that we have supported the insurgents of Benghazi, only to discover, when it's all over, a State that forbids divorce and re-establishes polygamy? Details. Explanations.

1. It all began with one phrase. A single phrase. Of course, this...

Yes of course, the fate of the civilians trapped in Sirte is eminently disturbing.

No, the international community -- the one that, on March 17th, made the historic resolution to prevent, by force, the bloodbath that was inevitable in Benghazi -- cannot turn a deaf ear to the rumors...

It's more than a success. It's a tidal wave. It's even a revolution. And take heed, it's a revolution in the practice of our institutions. This primary we were all wary of, this primary of which, initially, no one understood much, in which no one believed, this open -- yes,...

Is the European crisis the cause of the current financial crisis or the consequence?

In a sense, yes, perhaps it's the cause. Wasn't the Greek crisis the second detonator, after the subprime affair of 2008, the second phase of the combustion engine, the second twist of the downward spiral,...

For nearly 40 years, I have been in favor of the accession of a viable Palestinian State and the "two peoples, two States" solution.

Throughout my life, if only in sponsoring the Israeli-Palestinian plan of Geneva and in welcoming its main authors, Yossi Beilin and Yasser Abed Rabbo, at...

Ten years later, where, exactly, are we?

Al Qaeda, of course, is not entirely dead.

From the Sahel to Yemen, Nigeria to Uzbekistan and throughout the Caucasus, the metastasis of the terrorist cancer is ongoing.

The Taliban, which make up the greatest reserve army of Afghanistan, are,...

The first time I saw Jorge Semprun was in 1977, with his wife Colette and his friend Yves Montand, in a restaurant he was fond of in the rue du Dragon.

Already, he had this handsome head of white hair that made him look like Don Diego de Bivar,...

Rent a boat we happened on at Malta, since Misrata, surrounded by Qadhafi's troops and cut off from the world, can be reached only by sea.

After being turned down several times, find a Maltese sailor who, eager to make a dent in the debt he...

Do we realize to what extent the arrest, ten days ago, of ex-General Ratko Mladic, on the run for over fifteen years in rather strange circumstances, is important?

This is the man who gave the order, in July 1995, to massacre 8,000 men and youths whose very...