After the meeting with Analena Burbok on Friday morning in Athens, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will go to Paris, where in the afternoon of the same day he will meet with his new French counterpart Catherine Colonna. This is the first meeting between the foreign ministers of Greece and France after the formation of a […]
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France: The large forest fire in the Ardes has been contained
The blaze, likely caused by a criminal act, which has destroyed about 12,000 hectares in the Ardes, in southeastern France, without causing any casualties, has today been contained, according to firefighters. “The fire is considered contained, we have stabilized most of its perimeter, but there is still one area where the fire is problematic, it […]
France can only cover 2% of Germany’s natural gas needs
France is able to supply Germany with 20 terawatt hours of natural gas, or 2% of German consumption, during the winter months if needed, French energy officials said, according to Reuters. The exploitation of natural gas by Moscow as an economic and political weapon against the European Union has highlighted the dependence of the EU […]
Visit of N. Dendias to Paris on Friday, July 29
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, immediately after the end of his meeting with his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock in Athens next Friday, July 29, will go to Paris, where he will meet with his new French counterpart, Catherine Colonna. It is noted that this will be the first bilateral meeting between the Foreign Ministers of Greece […]
France-Energy crisis: Illuminated advertising banned at night
The French government is doubling down on calls for energy savings amid rising prices and the war in Ukraine, Bloomberg reports. Agnes Pannier-Runacher, minister for energy transition, said the measures include a ban on light advertising at night, except in train stations and airports, and preventing shops from keeping doors open when the air conditioning […]
France: National Assembly rejects windfall tax
France’s National Assembly rejected a tax on windfall profits in a closed vote today, as pressure mounts to tax energy and transport companies that have benefited from rising prices, Bloomberg reported. As they debated an update to this year’s budget bill, 114 members of the lower house rejected amendments that would have introduced an extraordinary […]
Germany: Schäuble calls on Berlin to help finance France’s nuclear arsenal
Germany should contribute to the cost of France’s nuclear arsenal as the threat of nuclear war with Russia looms over Europe, veteran German politician Wolfgang Schäuble said in an interview published today. “Now that Putin’s accomplices are threatening a nuclear strike every day, one thing is clear to me: we need nuclear deterrence at the […]
Can France finally be governed?
“We’ve done it – Building majorities,” Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne tweeted early in the morning, with the government clearly relieved. After four days of fighting in the parliament, he achieved his first victory, with the passing of the emergency purchasing power bill. This is a 20 billion package to support low-income families struggling with inflation. […]
In recession the front of the fires in France and Spain
The situation is clearly improving today on the fire fronts in both France and Spain, where a large fire is expected to soon be brought under control in the northeast. In France, two wildfires that have ravaged 208,000 hectares of forest in the Gironde (southwest) in the past 10 days and forced the evacuation of […]
For Paris, a Draghi departure opens a period of ‘uncertainties’
A departure by Italian Prime Minister Mario Daghi, a “pillar for Europe”, opens a “period of uncertainty”, French Undersecretary for European Affairs Laurence Bunn said today. Draghi is close to the exit door after the defection of three parties from the governing coalition, which ‘seals’ the fate of the national unity government. “Italy will enter […]