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In truth, he wanted to reconcile the French with each other. At least, that’s what François Hollande promised in his election campaign. Instead, in his first year in office he has already pitted his countrymen against each other with the “marriage for all” and fanned once again what the historian Emile Poulat has christened the “War of the Two Frances”.
Since France, the “eldest daughter of the Church”, first separated religion from schools in 1882, and then from the state in 1905, the dispute between those who justify this “secularism” in the name of “progress” and “modernity” and those who see it as an attack on the God-given and established social order, smoulders on.
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A conversation with investigative reporters Stefano Valentino and Giorgio Michalopoulos, who have dissected the dark underbelly of green finance for Voxeurop and won several awards for their work.
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