‘Candidates represent all the French, not just one community’: Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche party pulls support from female candidate after she wore a Muslim headscarf in her election poster Sara Zemmahi was pictured with colleagues on election posters in Montpellier Image was tweeted by an official from Marine Le Pen’s National Rally Party Muslim headscarves … Read more
A group of serving French soldiers have published a new open letter warning Emmanuel Macron that the ‘survival’ of France is at stake after the President made ‘concessions’ to Islamism. The letter published in the right-wing magazine Valeurs Actuelles (Today’s Values) late on Sunday echoes the tone of a similar letter printed in the same magazine … Read more
A group of serving French soldiers have published a new open letter warning Emmanuel Macron that the ‘survival’ of France is at stake after the President made ‘concessions’ to Islamism. The letter published in the right-wing magazine Valeurs Actuelles (Today’s Values) late on Sunday echoes the tone of a similar letter printed in the same magazine … Read more
Emmanuel Macron accused ‘Anglo-Saxons’ of blocking vaccine exports today and hinted he could back plans to strip manufacturers of their patents to speed up delivery. The French president, who has previously supported efforts by the EU to block exports to third-party nations, lashed out at the United States and the United Kingdom as he arrive at … Read more
Emmanuel Macron accused ‘Anglo-Saxons’ of blocking vaccine exports today and hinted he could back plans to strip manufacturers of their patents to speed up delivery. The French president, who has previously supported efforts by the EU to block exports to third-party nations, lashed out at the United States and the United Kingdom as he arrive at … Read more
A stable democracy doesn’t threaten to cut off its neighbour’s energy supplies. That is the sort of behaviour we associate with rogue states. Putin’s Russia, for example, sometimes resorts to ‘gas diplomacy’ to browbeat Ukraine and other nearby states. An energy blockade is calculatedly bellicose — if not exactly an act of war, then certainly … Read more
Emmanuel Macron and wife Brigitte attend Lily of Valley ceremony at Elysee Palace as France prepares to ease its third lockdown on Monday The couple wore masks during the traditional May 1 event at the Elysee Palace It comes ahead of the latest unwinding of the country’s third lockdown The number of new daily infections … Read more
Emmanuel Macron and wife Brigitte attend Lily of Valley ceremony at Elysee Palace as France prepares to ease its third lockdown on Monday The couple wore masks during the traditional May 1 event at the Elysee Palace It comes ahead of the latest unwinding of the country’s third lockdown The number of new daily infections … Read more
Germany and France were negotiating with Vladimir Putin to supply Russia’s coronavirus vaccine to the EU. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron were on a video call with the Russian president on Tuesday night. The leaders discussed ‘cooperation’, which would see the Sputnik jab made used in the European Union once regulators give … Read more
President Emmanuel Macron believes he has become such an expert on Covid that ‘he is no longer following the advice of scientists,’ according to colleagues. The 43-year-old faced damaging leaks in today’s Le Monde, one of France’s bestselling newspapers, which painted him as self-important and obstinate amid a surging third wave. It comes as his … Read more