A Complete Breakdown: Extremists on Left and Right Push France to the Brink

SPIEGEL ONLINE - International - France 2017-06-22

With only a few days to go before the first round of voting, a systemic crisis is dominating the campaign in France. It is no longer inconceivable that a Euroskeptic radical leftist or a far-right populist could become the country's next president. This bodes poorly for the French, but also their neighbors in Europe.