LAST UPDATE: 19:13 38.11% of French people had voted by 17.00 French time (18.00 Greek time) according to an announcement by the French Ministry of Interior. This percentage is lower than the corresponding one of the first round of last Sunday, where 39.4% had voted. However, it is higher than the percentage of the second […]
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Bloomberg: Macron adopts ominous tone before key vote
French President Emmanuel Macron and his proxies have adopted a revealing tone in the last week of the run-up to the run-off election, saying the country faces chaos if it does not hand over an absolute majority on Sunday. The 44-year-old centrist even found a year before an official visit to Eastern Europe to discuss […]
France – Today the second round of parliamentary elections: Macron is chasing autonomy, Melanson is prime minister
While Saturday’s newspapers covered primarily the death of Jean-Louis Trentinian and, secondarily, the election, the French are called today, for the fourth time in ten weeks, to go to the polls, this time to elect their 577 deputies. However, more than half of the voters – about 25 million – do not seem willing to […]
France: Will Melanson make the surprise?
Second round of French presidential elections on Sunday with the left-wing NUPES alliance and Jean-Luc Melanson claiming the presidency. They will make it; By April most had “written off” the Left in France. Until Jean-Luc Melanson, a leftist with elements of nationalism, eloquent but with an appeal to demagogy, celebrated a major electoral success. For […]
France – Parliamentary elections: Voting for the second round has begun in the overseas territories
French overseas and foreign voters began voting today in the second round of parliamentary elections, the outcome of which will determine President Emmanuel Macron’s maneuvers, especially in terms of reforms for the next five years. Two months after his re-election to the far right, Macron, a liberal center-right leader, hopes to regain an absolute majority […]
Bloomberg: ‘Investment guide’ for the second round of parliamentary elections in France tomorrow
France’s CAC 40 fell this week amid a global stock slump amid fears of a recession. Those who have invested in French stocks have one more thing to worry about this weekend, according to Bloomberg. In the event that President Emanuel Macron fails to win an absolute majority of seats in the National Assembly in […]
Heatwave: France suffocates, thousands of acres burned in Spain, drought in Italy
The unprecedented early heat wave that has hit southern Europe for days is expected to worsen across France today, even reaching absolute records, while in Spain firefighters are still struggling to contain fires on many fronts. Almost the entire French territory is expected to be affected today and 14 apartments in the south-west of France […]
France: Absolute parliamentary majority is a difficult equation for Macron
A few hours before the end of the election campaign in view of the second round of the parliamentary elections in France, the latest polls come to the same conclusions as the previous ones. Emanuel Macron, who won the presidential election in April, will come first in the parliamentary elections the day after tomorrow, but […]
France sends 31 tonnes of vegetable seeds to Ukraine to deal with food crisis
France, the EU’s largest producer of agricultural products, has launched 31 tonnes of vegetable seeds for sowing in Ukraine, after supplying 600 tonnes of potato seeds for planting between April and May, the foreign ministry said today. The aid is intended to deal with the “devastating effects of the Russian invasion” on Ukraine’s food security […]
France: Melanson promises French citizenship for Julian Assange if he becomes prime minister
The leader of the left-wing opposition in France, Jean-Luc Melanson, announced today that he will grant French citizenship to Julian Assange if he is appointed prime minister. The British government today signed a warrant for the release of the journalist and founder of the Wikileaks website to the United States, where he is being prosecuted […]
