Speakers: Jonathan Fenby, Simon Kuper

“Liberté, Egalité and Fraternité”: France at the crossroads.

In this session focused on France, Simon Kuper, the highly respected and entertaining Paris columnist for the Financial Times, discusses the current situation with bestselling author and political commentator, Jonathan Fenby, whose recent book The History of Modern France: From the Revolution to the Present, is a riveting analysis of France’s existential problems.

They examine a country beset by the challenges of globalisation, a struggling economy, emigration and the rise of extremism.