So French!

This week:
While trying to fight fake news, Emmanuel Macron fell on his own sword. Facebook and Twitter resued a European election campaign made by the French government because of breaking the new French Fake News law. Our guest Jackson Webster, a cybersecurity expert of Legalcluster in Paris, talks to us about the difficult relationship between social media and governments.

Would you like to buy an appartment in Paris? Dream on! The average price of one square meter (just enough space for a dish washer or a fridge) is now more than 10.000 euros!

We also tell you all about another government reshuffle: no less than three ministers said bye bye to Macron this week. And ahead of the European Elections, we talk to Europeans living in Paris about their view on the EU.
Recorded in Paris, on April 6, 2019. Hosts: Julia Vié and Stefan de Vries

This week we try to find an answer to essential life questions like should we keep Summer Time or Winter Time? And do we say 'pain au chocolat' or 'chocolatine'?
We also discuss the start of the conviction of the Cardinal of Lyon in a child's abuse case and Emmanuel Macron's start of the campaign for the European Elections.
Recorded in Paris, March 7, 2019.

This week we talk about the controversy regarding French police’s non-leathal flash-ball weapons, about food and about France's entry for this year's Eurovision Song Contest.

To satisfy the yellow vests, Emmanuel Macron launched his Grand National Debate. But will it be enough to calm down the profound anger in French society?

In the mean time, Renault's CEO Carlos Ghosn is still in a Japanese prison, are the French smoking less and less and was the country eating a lot of galette des rois...
Recorded in Paris, 12 January 2019

We are having a coffee with author Agnès Poirier in the fancy Café de Flore. She is a journalist and writer of “Left Bank”, a lively account of the intellectual and artistic life in post-war Paris.

Yellow vest protests have disrupted more or less everything in France's everyday life. What happens now? Will the anger be back after Christmas?
And in the middle of this, the environment weems to be the collateral damage. Over a million French now want to sue the government to force them to take action to save our planet.

The mystery of the babies born without arms. A new health scandal, and a possible cover-up by authorities? We’ll talk you through the story that’s grappling France.
Emmanuel Macron took some rest, he was allegedly very tired. Yet, making fun of the President, is a lucrative business. Tens of thousands of euros to migrants and homeless people thanks to Macron’s best - or worst - quotes.

At least ten people said 'non' to Macron, but after two weeks of looking for candidates, the French President finally managed to reshuffle his government.

Police raided the offices of Les Insoumises, the left-wing party, and that didn’t go down very well with its leader Jean Luc Mélenchon...

Will a new measure to improve air conditions in France’s major cities: will car tolls save it’ inhabitants from pollution?

Football Star Kylian Mbappé went back to his hometown, the Paris suburb Bondy. And also: the verdict in a murder case that was most talked about in Monaco.

Recorded in Paris, 19 October 2018

At least ten people said ‘non‘ to Macron, but after two weeks of looking for candidates, the French President finally managed to reshuffle his government.

Police raided the offices of Les Insoumises, the left-wing party, and that didn’t go down very well with its leader Jean Luc Mélenchon…

Will a new measure to improve air conditions in France’s major cities: will car tolls save it’ inhabitants from pollution?

Football Star Kylian Mbappé went back to his hometown, the Paris suburb Bondy. And also: the verdict in a murder case that was most talked about in Monaco.

Recorded in Paris, 19 October 2018

This week two (former) interior ministers dominated the news. One of them resigning… twice! Triggering a new crisis in the already fragilized government The other one, taking off towards new horizons, in the south: Manuel Valls switched Paris for Barcelona

Of course, we’ll talk about the entertainer of the century, Charles Aznavour. The great singer passed away this week career that lasted over half a century in which he wrote and recorded more than 1,200 songs.

And can you guess what is now the official French word for ‘fake news’?

Episode S04E03  (N°60) – Recorded in Paris, 5 October 2018