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- National identity debate


French identity: where next? (part 2)

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What is being French? Here is the question French people have been asked this autumn organized in debates. French Ministers had a meeting today to make a first assessment of this highly controversial topic. Is France right to question its identity?

 

José-Manuel LAMARQUE, Journalist for France Inter
Richard BEARDSWORTH, Professor of Political Philosophy at the American University of Paris
Karim Emile BITAR, Associate Researcher at the IRIS (Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques) and Editor of the collective book Regards sur la France (by phone from Rouen, France)
Crystal FLEMING, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology and Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University (via satellite from Cambridge, Ma)
Marc PERELMAN, France 24 French Politics Specialist
 
Programme prepared by Perrine Desplats and Bilal Tarabey
 

 


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