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Walter Ellis is a journalist and commentator based in France.
Friday, 4 December 2020
The surprise for most French people upon hearing that Valéry Giscard-d’Estaing had died was that he had survived this long. …
Continue reading "Rascal or hero: the remarkable life of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing"
By Walter Ellis
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Only a fool or an all-in Macron loyalist (of whom there are few these days) could fail to see that …
Continue reading "Why Macron is keeping his head above water in a crisis-ridden France"
By Walter Ellis
Tuesday, 24 November 2020
Earlier this month, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, called up Ben Smith, media columnist of the New York Times, to …
By Walter Ellis
Tuesday, 17 November 2020
Where do we go from here? Hungary and Poland have followed up on their threat to defund the European Union. …
By Walter Ellis
Friday, 13 November 2020
I read somewhere the other day that the problem with the European Union was that its best days were behind …
Continue reading "The dream of a united Europe is in danger of fading into history"
By Walter Ellis
Sunday, 8 November 2020
So, he’s finally done it – after a tense thriller on election night and a drawn out counting process, Joe …
Continue reading "Extraordinary Joe: President Biden could be one of America’s great crisis leaders"
By Walter Ellis
Friday, 6 November 2020
Emmanuel Macron must have known what he was taking on when he announced last month that French Muslims would in …
By Walter Ellis
Thursday, 29 October 2020
It is hard to know what to say anymore in the wake of the attacks on the French people by …
Continue reading "Macron needs help from France’s moderate Muslims to take on Islamist extremism"
By Walter Ellis
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
The truest test of political leaders is not the way in which they deal with the issues about which they …
Continue reading "Macron is right to take on Erdoğan and promote a modern, secular French Islam"
By Walter Ellis
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