Berlin welcomed the election result in France with relief, with Olaf Solz being the first to congratulate the re-elected Macron. Critical next time for Franco-German friendship. Relief, a big “Ugh”, as the newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung writes, is the feeling that prevails today in Berlin after the re-election of Emmanuel Macron in the French Presidency. This […]
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A strong rally may be out of reach in the short term – Rabobank
Concerns about French politics are refusing to go away. In turn, growing fears of supply problems resulting from new restrictions in China have increased support for the dollar. Therefore, the EUR/USD pair is unlikely to enjoy major gains anytime soon, Rabobank economists report. Key Statements: “A fractured French electorate and concerns about energy security in […]
The next challenges for Macron
By Costas Raptis There is no justification for voting at the ballot box. Neither “asterisks.” Many of the French who favored Emanuel Macron may have done so, he admitted in his winning speech, out of a desire to block the road to Marin Le Pen, rather than in agreement with his program. But in any […]
Macron wins the French elections with 58.5% of the vote
Emmanuel Macron has defeated his rival Marine Le Pen in the second round of the French presidential elections. The current president has obtained the 58.54% of the votes for his party, La República, compared to the 41.46% achieved by the leader of the extreme right, a historical result although insufficient for the National Front. The […]
France: Big Macron win 58%
LAST UPDATE 23:55 Emanuel Macron is re-elected President of the Republic for the next five years in France as shown by all the official estimates of the results for the second round of the presidential elections. According to public television A2, Emanuel Macron has a percentage of 58.2% and his opponent 41.8%, while according to […]
France-presidential elections: At 63.23% the turnout at 18.00 Greek time – At 28% abstention is expected
LAST UPDATE: 18:27 The turnout in the second round of the French presidential elections today amounted to 63.23% at 17.00 in the afternoon (18.00 Greek time) according to data announced by the Ministry of Interior. In the previous elections, in 2017, at the same time the turnout was 65.30%. The data confirm the trend predicted […]
France: Priest attacked with a knife in Nice – “I want to kill Macron”, said the perpetrator
LAST UPDATE: 13:42 A Frenchman “apparently suffering from bipolar disorder” attacked a priest this morning, slightly injuring him, in a church in Nice (southern France), but the action “is not of a terrorist nature”, the French Agency reported, citing a police officer. source. The attack was announced by the country’s Minister of Interior, in a […]
Carlos Ghosn: French authorities issue international arrest warrant for former Nissan strongman
French authorities have issued international arrest warrants for the arrest of former Nissan president Carlos Ghosn and four other people who allegedly helped him extract millions of euros from Renault for personal use, according to Bloomberg. One of the warrants targets billionaire Suhail Bahwan, who owns a car dealership in Oman, where prosecutors suspect he […]
France: The so-called ‘moderate’ Le Pen
The greatest achievement of the communicators accompanying Marin Le Pen was the diploma obtained by the “National Alarm” candidate as… cat trainer. Whenever she wants to send a personal message to the voters, Le Pen talks about her favorite big Bengal cats, which roam her living room. But even when she analyzes her political agenda, […]
Macron: Lepen is taking advantage of the anger that I could not calm down
LAST UPDATE: 11:06 Emanuel Macron, his candidate for re-election as president of France on Sunday, acknowledged today that he could not at least partially quell anger in the country and that his far-right opponent, Marine Le Pen, was trying to quell some of that anger in the run-up to the election. her campaign. “And here […]
