The second round of the French parliament elections of last Sunday has made one important victim, as Alain Juppé was not able to get elected and therefore resigned as superminister for “sustainable development”. Mr Juppé will be replaced by Jean-Louis Borloo, who was finance minister up to now.
Some French media are speculating that the “superministry” [...]

With the first round of the French presidential elections coming up on 22 April, the Economist this weekend features a lead article anointing Nicolas Sarkozy as France’s great hope for reform. Unfortunately, the Economist’s definition of reforms (“to get the economy growing faster”) lacks any awareness of the real challenge our “spaceship Earth” faces: to [...]