France must be equipped with “more” firefighting planes, President Macron said today as he visited southwestern France, where fires have burned more than 200,000 hectares of forest. The 22 planes with which the civil protection service has been equipped “have been enough for the last few years… Should we have more? The answer is yes,” […]
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At last, a roadmap for Europe’s energy crisis
Her Maria Tadeo Finally, someone seems to be on the right track for Europe’s energy crisis. On July 14, as France celebrated Bastille Day, President Macron accused Putin of manipulating energy supplies to punish Europe for helping Ukraine. He argued that Russia would likely cut off gas supplies completely, leading France and the rest of […]
Important agreements will be signed by the president of the United Arab Emirates in Paris
Important agreements with France, mainly in the energy sector, are expected to be signed by the president of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who has been in Paris since Sunday and met with President Emmanuel Macron on Monday. The French side is pleased that the purchase of large quantities of diesel […]
Did Erdogan ask Macron for Rafale? – What Turkish media reports
Effervescence in Turkey, as debate rages over alternatives to buy fighters, following US F-16 brake. Scenarios that after the Macron-Erdogan conversation reach the Rafale fighters. According to the Turkish TRT, Erdogan asked Macron for cooperation in order for Turkey to procure the anti-aircraft SAMPT and at the same time have access to the know-how of […]
Macron’s thank you in Greek – The Greek Prime Minister’s response
With a new message, this time in Greek, Emmanuel Macron thanks Greece for its assistance in extinguishing the fires in France. “Solidarity is European. A year ago, when Greece was facing terrible fires, we mobilized as Europeans. Yesterday, Greek firefighting aircraft arrived in the south of France to support the work of our firefighters,” French […]
Macron’s ‘thank you’ to Greece for sending two Canadairs
French President Emmanuel Macron thanked Greece for its assistance in the effort to extinguish the fires raging in southwestern France, with the dispatch of two Canadair aircraft. “Solidarity is European: a year ago, when Greece was facing terrible fires, we mobilized as Europeans. Today at noon, planes of the Greek rescue forces arrived in the […]
Macron: ‘Difficult and hard autumn’ for energy, economy and Ukrainian
French President Emmanuel Macron spoke of a “difficult” and “hard” autumn, both on the front of the military conflict in Ukraine, and on the front of the French and European economy, during a televised interview he gave, on the occasion of today’s national holiday of France. An interview that traditionally takes place after the military […]
Macron ‘of course was in contact’ when he was Minister of Finance with service companies, clarifies the Elysee on the UBER issue
There was a first reaction this morning from the Champs-Élysées in relation to the publications of several European newspapers on the mode of operation in the transport sector of the company UBER and whether and to what extent Emmanuel Macron was in France its privileged interlocutor during the period 2014- 2016 which was in the […]
The revelations about the privileged relations between Macron and Uber are causing a wave of indignation on the French left
“Secret” agreement against the violation of “all our rules”, “looting the country”: elected officials of the French left loudly denounced yesterday Sunday the relations of President Emmanuel Macron, during his time as Minister of Economy, with the company Uber, after press disclosures. As part of the “Uber Files”, an investigation based on thousands of internal […]
Uber files: How top politicians like Macron and European officials lobbied for the company
Thousands of leaked files have revealed how Uber approached top politicians and the lengths it went to avoid justice. The files, the BBC reports, detail the extensive help Uber received from leaders such as Emmanuel Macron and former EU commissioner Neelie Kroes. They also show how the former head of the taxi company personally ordered […]
