Election campaign in France: Why Germany is becoming the metaphor of evil

French presidential candidates Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen have one thing in common that should worry us: their long-cherished hatred of Germany.

When you read French newspapers these days, you wonder whether the school protests and dramatic financial reports are already a necessary time out of the French election campaign or just an election campaign by other means. Budgetary crisis, rising interest costs and a student strike that paralyzes first schools and now also universities: although one is still far from a revolution or a financial crisis, as they are now invoked, it is bubbling more and more. Financial worries, with rising debt and an ageing population, drive the state and the people. But those who listen in Paris increasingly perceive an even greater political concern: that with Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the second round of the French presidential election could become an election of the extremes.

At the Paris Motor Show, France and Germany are reviving their European axis. The forces are bundled together, symbolically and with law. Good cars would help. There are already good ideas.

For online surveys, the highest caution is required. Methodologists and the CDU-affiliated Adenauer Foundation point this out. Nevertheless, the CDU invited the click demoscopes of Civey to their crisis meeting.

My novel, my child, my artwork: Kate Zambreno tells of the expectations of a writing mother between vagueness and concretion – and parallels life and work with works by the artist Eva Hesse.