U.S. President Joe Biden confused Emmanuel Macron, the current French president, with François Mitterrand, who led France from 1981 to 1995 and died in 1996. In a speech at a campaign rally in Las Vegas, while telling a story about the G7 summit that took place in England in June 2021 and which Macron attended, … Read more
Outside the courtroom, Bayrou said the court’s decision marked the end of a “seven-year-long nightmare.” It was initially estimated that the European Parliament had incurred €1.4 million in losses from the embezzlement scheme, but the institution’s legal defense had lowered the figure to €293,000 by the start of the trial, AFP reported. Bayrou endorsed Macron … Read more
But after Thursday’s European Council summit in Brussels, Sánchez rejected Attal’s comments and praised Spanish produce. He said that its popularity was due to its superior quality. “Our products’ success is the result of the huge innovative advances undertaken by the agricultural sector and the hard work of Spanish farmers,” the prime minister said. Sánchez … Read more
Speaking before the French National Assembly, Attal vowed to “lift the burden” of rules and regulations for small business owners, slash red tape and reduce payroll taxes in a bid to encourage employers to give raises to minimum wage workers. Attal also confirmed a total of €2 billion in tax cuts for the middle class, … Read more
Despite the IOC’s ultimate recommendation to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in Paris as neutrals — that is, without a national flag or anthem — the International Gymnastics Federation recently decided not to include any Russian gymnasts on the list of athletes permitted to take part in qualifying competitions for the 2024 Olympics. … Read more
They charged that ECOWAS has “moved away from the ideals of its founding fathers and pan-Africanism.” “Furthermore, ECOWAS, under the influence of foreign powers, betraying its founding principles, has become a threat to its member states and its populations whose happiness it is supposed to ensure,” they said. Considered West Africa’s top political and regional … Read more
BERLIN — Emmanuel Macron: French president, statesman and, er, German speaker. Macron impressed and surprised mourners in the German parliament on Monday by delivering a eulogy for Wolfgang Schäuble predominantly in German — for which he needed just a few hours of practice, according to his German teacher. The French president had been invited to the … Read more
A deputy mayor in the French capital has accused Paris Saint-Germain boss Nasser al-Khelaifi of defamation after the Qatari football tycoon suggested the city’s refusal to sell PSG a football stadium was rooted in racism. Al-Khelaifi wants to buy the Parc des Princes stadium, which the Qatari-owned French football club is currently renting from the … Read more
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron has propelled rising star Gabriel Attal center stage in a high-risk gamble aimed at stopping the far right’s surge ahead of the European election. In a surprise move on Tuesday, Macron appointed his former education minister and one … Read more
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron has picked Gabriel Attal, the outgoing minister of education, to be France’s new prime minister. “The President of the Republic has appointed Mr Gabriel Attal as prime minister, and tasked him with forming a government,” the French presidency announced in a press release Tuesday. Elisabeth Borne, the second woman … Read more
