21 December 2024
"We want to work together and build concrete solutions for our future. I want to salute the new direction that has been taken": @EmmanuelMacron to @RishiSunak
"I am very happy Mr. Prime Minister to meet you at the Elysée. 5 years have passed since the last meeting. This summit is exceptional, it is a moment of reunion, reconnection, and new departure": @EmmanuelMacron to @RishiSunak
In Marseille, a blockage is underway at the Prado-Carénage tunnel. It still does not pass
French Senate voted in favor of Article 7 raising the retirement age from 62 to 64
The charges of the CRS multiply to try to disperse the wild procession in the 13th arrondissement
The outside cgt/south procession arrives at Place d'Italie and joins the other. A demonstration that had to take 2 or even 3 different boulevards. And they were all crowded
Strike of March 7: more than 100,000 demonstrators in Lille according to the CGT
Big movement on the avenue des Gobelins. The forces of order charge, out of control, and find themselves surrounded
French Defense Minister: Our priority is to send missiles to Ukraine, but the talk of sending fighter jets has already begun
The resolution for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine based on the principles of the United Nations is adopted by a very large majority by the UN General Assembly UNGA
Smoke at La Défense district in Paris
1 year ago
Martinique violence: A man killed by firearm, another in cardiac arrest and two wounded by bullets in 24 hours
1 year ago
French Defense Minister: We will deliver AMX-10 light combat tanks to Ukraine by the end of next week
The French MFA urges its citizens to leave Belarus. It's said on the website of the MFA that amid Russia's armed offensive against Ukraine and the closure of the Belarusian airspace, any traveling to Belarus is formally not advised
Opposition groups rally in France demanding EU list Iran's Guards as terrorist group
Macron assures Zelensky of France's desire "to accompany Ukraine towards victory"
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is in France. He will meet @EmmanuelMacron and the German Chancellor @OlafScholz at the Élysée
During this time, the head of the procession enters the Boulevard du Temple with the bulk of the demonstrators, calmly1 year ago
During this time, the head of the procession enters the Boulevard du Temple with the bulk of the demonstrators, calmly
In Paris, the trade unions are distributed at regular intervals near the Opera: here the cftc on the Boulevard des Italiens. Departure scheduled for 2 p.m. pension reform February 7th demonstration
Agence France-Presse: Belgium plans to extend the service of 3 nuclear reactors
French Foreign Ministry: It is the Assad government that obstructs a political solution in Syria
A university student was stabbed in the university city of Paris and the police detained the suspect
Burkina Faso confirms having requested the withdrawal of French troops
French Foreign Minister: It is time as Europeans to respond to Iran's hostage policy
Macron and Scholz departing the Élysée palace together in one car. Last item on today's agenda is a privat dinner in Macron's favorite brasserie
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday reaffirmed the importance of their nations' postwar alliance, despite strains created by Russia's invasion of Ukraine
President @EmmanuelMacron says - standing next to @Bundeskanzler - that he does not exclude the idea of France providing Leclerc tanks to Ukraine
1 year ago
Statement of French and German defence ministers: "To develop the capacity of both armies to deploy together, to project two Franco-German battalions from the Franco-German Brigade for exercises in Romania & Lithuania, and to conduct a bilateral naval exercise in the Indo-Pacific in 2024
France & Germany "support the deployment of the high-speed train route between Paris and Berlin, as well as a night train service, both for 2024," announced after a meeting in Paris between Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz
"We have to fear that this war will last a very long time," says Scholz in Paris. But still no clear text on Leopard deliveries - any decision only closely coordinated with partners like the USA. Macron a little clearer on French tanks: "Nothing is excluded