{"id":4395,"date":"2026-06-02T15:22:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/can-we-still-live-together\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:22:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:22:53","slug":"can-we-still-live-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/can-we-still-live-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Still Live Together?"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Causeur<\/em>, the publication’s latest issue addresses how M\u00e9lenchon’s vision of a “new France” rejects the nation’s historic heritage and effectively ratifies the breakdown of the Republic and decline of civility. The magazine’s editor Jean-Baptiste Roques<\/strong> introduces the monthly dossier by asserting that traditional France has not yet spoken its final word in this cultural battle.<\/p>\n

The issue was finalized before the PSG-Arsenal match and subsequent disturbances in Paris and other cities, yet the editors note they had anticipated such events. Violence, confrontations and property damage have become standard features of the supposed multicultural harmony that characterizes contemporary France, Causeur<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n

M\u00e9nard Speaks Out on Generational Divide<\/h2>\n

The magazine features an interview with Robert M\u00e9nard<\/strong>, the mayor of B\u00e9ziers, conducted by Causeur<\/em> editor Elisabeth L\u00e9vy<\/strong> and Roques. M\u00e9nard acknowledges the ideological chasm separating his generation from progressive youth but maintains his course of common sense and uncompromising opposition to Islamic communitarianism. The publication raises the question of whether this path might lead him to a presidential bid.<\/p>\n

L\u00e9vy reviews M\u00e9nard’s recent work “Letter to Clara,” in which the mayor addresses his left-wing activist daughter. Setting aside provocation in favor of persuasion, M\u00e9nard seeks mutual understanding across their political divide through paternal love.<\/p>\n

Language of National Extinction<\/h2>\n

Ga\u00ebl Nofri<\/strong> analyzes M\u00e9lenchon’s rhetoric in the issue, arguing that beneath attractive phrases like “new France” and “creolization” lies a straightforward proposal to record the death of the nation. The end of assimilation, the end of transmission, the end of the Republic, according to Nofri. This language avoids naming the brutal reality of one population being substituted by another, the analysis concludes.<\/p>\n

Essayist Mathieu Bock-C\u00f4t\u00e9<\/strong> tells Causeur<\/em> that France has become an expansion zone for the Global South. Facing creeping territorial partition, he urges the right to overcome personal quarrels in what he characterizes as a matter of life or death.<\/p>\n

Immigration Demographics Examined<\/h2>\n

The June edition examines the demographics of this “new France” through an interview with Nicolas Pouvreau-Monti<\/strong>, author of “Immigration, Myths and Realities.” Pouvreau-Monti discusses with Roques how the population of immigrant origin has reached unprecedented numbers. Driven by sub-Saharan fertility rates and the attractiveness of asylum law, this transformation is reshaping regions previously untouched, presenting major security, economic and political challenges.<\/p>\n

Sports and Food as Cultural Battlegrounds<\/h3>\n

The cultural split expresses itself through sports and cuisine, Causeur<\/em> observes. Low-quality chicken fast-food establishments have proliferated across French streets, drawing growing crowds with unbeatable prices. Correspondent Jonathan Siksou<\/strong> provides a firsthand account of these takeaway containers that attract masses.<\/p>\n

Pierre Vermeren<\/strong>, Gavin Mortimer<\/strong> and St\u00e9phane Germain<\/strong> analyze how football has been appropriated by the new France while traditional France has retreated into rugby. Football predictably generates destruction and violence sometimes resulting in death, while rugby is celebrated by old France with energy but civility.<\/p>\n

Historical Revisionism at UN and French Assembly<\/h2>\n

In her monthly editorial, L\u00e9vy addresses the French National Assembly’s May 28 abrogation of the Code Noir and a March 25 UN General Assembly resolution characterizing the African slave trade and racialized enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity. These votes are problematic, L\u00e9vy argues, reflecting a partial reading of history that ignores Arab-Muslim slave trading.<\/p>\n

This creates a hierarchy among crimes against humanity that negates the very notion of crimes against humanity, opening the door to victimhood competition where parties compete over who suffered most.<\/p>\n

Gulf States Face New Vulnerabilities<\/h2>\n

Gil Mihaely<\/strong> explains in the issue that Gulf countries have discovered petroleum does not guarantee happiness. The Arabian peninsula has found itself doubly vulnerable, with neither the American security umbrella nor petrodollars protecting it from Iranian strikes. Each state now pursues its own strategy: Abu Dhabi chooses military power, Riyadh attempts appeasement, while Doha and Oman position themselves as mediators. All recognize an uncertain future.<\/p>\n

The CRINK Alliance<\/h2>\n

The magazine introduces what it terms the bellicose “CRINK” quartet\u2014China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. With China financing their war economies, Russia, Iran and North Korea hope to overturn today’s Western-dominated world order. This alliance remains fragile as each pursues separate objectives, and their dangerous game could lead to global conflagration, according to the analysis.<\/p>\n

The June issue became available on the digital newsstand today and reaches physical newsstands on Wednesday, June 3.<\/p>\n

With information from Causeur<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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