The French and German foreign ministers, Jean-Yves Le Drian and Analena Berbock, respectively, today expressed their determination to support Moldova, the former Soviet republic bordering Ukraine, in the face of the “risks of destabilization” it faces. “The ministers discussed the European response to the war in Ukraine and referred to the continuation and deepening of […]
Tag: France
The ‘Macron method’
The result of the French presidential election provoked a wave of analysis and commentary, the common denominator of which is the surprise of the socio-political nature of the result and the forces in the political field. Few seem to remember that the battle of 2022 merely reproduced a situation that is deeply rooted in the […]
France: 86% of voters want left-wing parties to work together in parliamentary elections
86% of French voters who support Left parties are in favor of cooperating in the June parliamentary elections, according to a poll by pollster Odoxa Backbone-Consulting for Le Figaro newspaper. According to Gael Sliemann, the director of the company, the high percentage is due, firstly, to the fact that Melanson comes from the Socialist Party […]
France: Former President Francois Hollande opposes Socialist cooperation with Melanson’s party
Political life in France has entered a phase of all kinds of intra-party and inter-party consultations in view of the June parliamentary elections. The main issue in this election is whether the winner of the presidential election, Emanuel Macron, will continue to rule with control of the French National Assembly for another five years, or […]
France: Paris backs Moldova in ‘risks of destabilization’
France is backing Moldova “at risk of destabilization,” Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said today, following a series of bombings in the pro-Russian breakaway region of Transnistria, which borders war-torn Ukraine. “The minister shared with his Moldovan counterpart his concern and vigilance in the face of the events of the last two days in Transnistria. […]
French press condemns Osman Kavala’s life sentence in Turkey
A large portion of the French press reports today on the sentence of Osman Kavala to life imprisonment. “Businessman Osman Kavala has been sentenced to life in prison after a mock trial in Turkey,” Le Monde reported, noting that the Council of Europe has already launched a breach of European law over Turkey’s refusal to […]
France: Marine Le Pen to seek re-election in June parliamentary elections
The leader of the French far right, Marine Le Pen, who lost to President Emmanuel Macron in Sunday’s presidential election, will run for re-election in the June parliamentary elections, a party official said today. National Alarm (RN) Vice President Louis Alio told CNEWS that Le Pen would run in the June 12 and 19 elections. […]
France: Macron is expected to announce the new prime minister next week
With Emanuel Macron winning the more-than-expected presidential election, France is re-entering the run-up to the June parliamentary elections, which will decide whether the re-elected president will rule for the next five years on his own. or whether he will be forced into some kind of political cohabitation, to which, at some point, all the presidents […]
Macron’s political term in office
By Mike O ‘Sullivan Emanuel Macron has been elected President of France for a second consecutive term, with the ballot box giving him a higher percentage (58.5%) than the polls predict. The lesson is that the French can whine in the polls and shout during the election campaign, but they will not vote in the […]
France: President Macron now has parliamentary elections ahead of him
As of last night, Emmanuel Macron is the third president to be re-elected for a fifth French Republic in sixty years (the other two were Mitterrand and Chirac), but also the only one to be re-elected without a first term in office. lost parliamentary elections and was forced into what in France is called “cohabitation”. […]
