To Ursula, with love: Paris sends Brussels the anti-Breton
France’s incoming commissioner is a Macron loyalist who prefers backroom dealing to attention-grabbing stunts.
France’s incoming commissioner is a Macron loyalist who prefers backroom dealing to attention-grabbing stunts.
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The Elysée confirmed the issue of migration would be at the very centre of discussions during Emmanuel Macron’s State visit in Morocco.
French president appears to fundamentally disagree with the course of budget discipline advocated by his country’s prime minister.
The meeting was described as an opportunity to share perspectives — without the goal of reaching an agreement.
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For the prime minister, France’s EU policy is a sphere of influence that is shared between the Elysée and the premiership. For the president, it’s his ‘reserved domain.’
Weakened on the domestic front, the French president could also face pressure from his prime minister’s influence in Brussels.
Au sommet de l’Etat, les hausses de crédits demandées avant l’été vont finalement être gommées pendant le débat du budget 2025.
Les parlementaires veulent inciter l’exécutif à prévenir la menace d’un rachat d’un fleuron de l’industrie française par le chinois Tencent.
Ministres, PDG ou lobbyistes, ils façonnent le débat public sur le sujet.
An already weakened Macron risks outrage from farmers as the rest of the EU races to get Mercosur deal done.
A key concern of European leaders is to “build European convergence on a cease-fire” in the Middle East, the Elysée said.
French president wants to showcase his support for Kyiv despite budgetary restraints.
France has a new government, but it may not last long.
The agreement still must be approved by French President Emmanuel Macron.
He threw his allies under the bus.
Breton dramatically resigned earlier Monday with a blast at his boss, Ursula von der Leyen.
The French president seeks to form a new government two months after a snap election defeat.
Insiders say popular former PM is preparing for Macron to step down, despite French president’s insistence he’ll stay in office until end of his term.
Even young students are grilling current Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on who will succeed him.
The French president will hold talks Monday with former Socialist PM Bernard Cazeneuve, seen as a front-runner for the job.
France has been embroiled in a political crisis since Macron called a snap election in June.
Joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz shows Britain’s new leader working to heal Brexit wounds — while walking a fine line back home.
On a visit to Berlin, the new U.K. prime minister may look at his German counterpart as a cautionary tale.
Britain’s new leader heads to Berlin and Paris to talk up a fresh pact with Germany — and closer ties with Europe.
French President Emmanuel Macron will hold meetings with key leaders of the country’s main political parties on Friday and Monday to “keep moving towards the broadest and most stable majority possible,” according to the Elysée Palace.
France’s centrist socialists are eyeing Britain’s experience of how to purge the hard left.
Fresh spat in the left-wing New Popular Front alliance is good news for the Macron camp, which hopes to benefit from a fragmented opposition.
Possible new PMs include left-wing Lucie Castets, former socialist heavyweight Bernard Cazeneuve and conservative Xavier Bertrand.
But it will take more than a serenade to woo Paris.
France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland and Portugal urge the Venezuelan government to “release promptly all the tally sheets” from controversial vote.
France, Germany, Italy and the U.K. are reaching out to Middle Eastern counterparts to urge calm.
A state dinner with the U.K.’s king cost the French nearly €500,000.
La présidence de la République affiche un déficit de plus de 8 millions d’euros selon la Cour des comptes, qui appelle à des “efforts significatifs”.
LVMH, Coca-Cola, Allianz… les plus grosses entreprises se partagent les lieux emblématiques de Paris, pour le plaisir comme pour les affaires.
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French president will use the occasion to pursue his charm offensive among foreign investors.
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With no one in charge, the French president’s allies believe anything is possible.
The president is a lonely, tragic figure whose strange personality has inflicted chaos and carnage on French politics.
The winning left-wing alliance has many options for Prime Minister. None of them will make everyone happy.
A budding rivalry could tear apart the French far right’s “winning ticket.”
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Facing a snap election wipeout, Emmanuel Macron’s allies have told him to shut up.
Early projections show National Rally on course for victory in the vote for a new parliament as Emmanuel Macron’s election gamble backfires.
The Italian prime minister also called the EU ‘an invasive bureaucratic giant.’
France has broken EU rules when it comes to fiscal policy, according to the European Commission’s latest report. In response, the Elysée has until September to present a plan able to quell Brussels’s fears.
Les 27 chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement ne sont pas parvenus à un accord lundi soir sur le renouvellement du mandat d’Ursula von der Leyen à la tête de la Commission européenne.
Macron’s weakened coalition could lose almost all its representation in parliament in the legislative elections, strangling his centrist agenda
Senior state officials are wondering what attitude they should adopt if they had to work for a far-right government.
France’s leader has changed his country and Europe — and not in ways that he necessarily intended.
Les grands commis de l’Etat s’interrogent sur l’attitude à adopter s’ils devaient travailler pour un gouvernement d’extrême droite.
Even his allies don’t want the French president’s face on their posters or his voice on the radio.
France’s president has bet big on a showdown with the far right.
On Sunday night, Emmanuel Macron called for snap elections. Can the president’s sudden move halt the far right’s rising success?
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Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party has harnessed the country’s widespread discontent with the elite in the capital.
If the polls are correct, this week’s European Parliament election will reorder the Continent’s political landscape.
While a right-wing surge is expected to sweep Europe at the EU election this weekend, the results could have significant political consequences domestically in France.
The prospect of a Russian presence at the Normandy commemorations drew concern from Western allies.
Slick, disciplined and a hit with young voters, the president of the National Rally is remaking the party in his image.
U.S. President Joe Biden will make his first state visit to France next week after attending a ceremony on the 80th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy.
French president said the spending splurge could be funded either by common borrowing or by using existing instruments.
Inviting Russia to D-Day commemorations is fast becoming a diplomatic headache for Paris.
Break it gently to the French president, but it will take more than the French and U.K. nuclear deterrents to defend the Continent without the US.
Xi Jinping handed Emmanuel Macron some wins during his state visit, but offered few meaningful concessions on trade and Ukraine
Xi Jinping called for a global truce, despite Russia showing no signs of halting its offensive against Ukraine.
The prospect of Chinese tariffs has the French cognac industry worried for its future.
Xi Jinping kicked off his European tour in Paris on Monday — with stops in Belgrade and Budapest next on the itinerary.
Amid arguments over electric cars, cognac and Ukraine, the French president’s dinner with Xi Jinping may not be much fun.
Brussels is rife with speculation on who might be chosen as the EU executive’s next chief.
A competitive, green Europe will require trillions in investments. No one has a good answer on where that money will come from.
France’s Gaza diplomacy is also about about navigating France’s internal political and religious divisions, which have been a frequent source of domestic tensions.
Les gardes rapprochées des deux têtes de l’exécutif peinent à accorder leurs violons, sur fond d’omniprésence de Gabriel Attal.
The French president is agitated by his finance minister’s calls for drastic spending cuts ahead of the European election, where his centrists are likely to face a drubbing.
Rwanda marks the 30th anniversary of the genocide that claimed around 800,000 lives.
The French public’s allegiance to the idea of Europe remains strong, but a a real understanding of the EU is weak — which is why Le Pen’s de facto policy of dismantling it from the inside is poorly understood.
U.S. Secretary of State says Israel must “do more” to protect civilians.
Opposition to identity politics isn’t confined to the cultural right.
The presidents showered each other with affection and papered over the cracks on the war in Ukraine and a contentious trade pact.
Macron cracks the whip as his EU campaign stutters amid a widening gap between centrists and the far right.
The trip comes as Beijing seeks to reduce EU hostility over China’s links with Russia.
Beyoncé, Jay-Z and Elon Musk were among the A-listers in attendance.
Stars et milliardaires ont répondu présents pour voir le PDG de LVMH être élevé au plus haut rang de la Légion d’honneur.
Summit comes amid heightened tensions between Berlin and Paris.
The Elysée Palace denied security concerns over the visit after a Russian missile landed near the Greek prime minister’s motorcade in Ukraine last week.
Le processus de désignation du nouveau président de LCP va être lancé mercredi.
The number of confirmed foreign investments projects in France is on the up for the third year in a row, according to new government data released on Thursday (29 February) – almost a third of which comes from the US, despite growing concerns over labo…