After June’s legislative elections, Emmanuel Macron no longer has an absolute majority to implement his program. Then the President of the French Republic promised A “New method”. But five months later, the Prime Minister, Elizabeth Bourne, has already invoked Article 49(3), which allows the government to pass a bill without a vote in the National […]
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“With the return of war on European soil, the stakes of the military programming law are beyond its budgetary dimensions.”
UNo “Crazy Dough” ? Emmanuel Macron is not used to using such words when talking about the military budget. France will even have to continue its financial efforts if it wants to “In 2030, let us have the armies of the next decade, not the armies of the previous decade”. This is how the President […]
Mysterious capital is pouring in to help the Turkish government
A portrait of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hangs at the currency exchange office in Istanbul, Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. FRANCISCO SECO/AP Finding financing to revive its ailing economy is a major challenge for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is not approaching the crucial June 2023 election deadline (presidential and legislative) as the favorite. […]
More than two hundred elected officials at the forum, including Christophe Castaner and Bruno Retaille, defend bullfighting and oppose “eco-totalitarianism.”
La France insoumise (LFI) MP Aymeric Caron speaks during a demonstration against bullfighting by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), an animal rights group, in Paris, November 19, 2022. Julian de Rosa / AFP Two hundred and eighteen elected “of different sensitivities and territories”Among them Christophe Castaner and Bruno Retailleau, sign on the […]
Budget 2023: Senate rejects taxing super profits
Gabriel Atal, in the Senate, Paris, on November 17, 2022. Bertrand Guy / AFP The Senate, dominated by the right-wing opposition, rejected the super-profits tax on Saturday evening, November 19. He rejected amendments from the left and centrists that planned to tax the windfall profits of big companies, against government advice. In the first reading […]
Environment and health: “when the boundaries between common interests and private interests are completely erased”
JUntil February 2020, he was the deputy for European and international affairs in the Marine Fisheries Directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture. At the beginning of 2022, he was still a member of the French delegation to the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC), the international organization responsible for the management and sharing of tuna stocks […]
Rachida Dutt, the right-wing elected official who divides the left
Rachida Dutt at a restaurant on the Place de Republique in Paris on October 13, 2022. Rafael Yahogzade “For the World” The occasion was very good. Rachida Dati is out of the question. In mid-November, the mayor of Paris (Socialist Party), Ana Hidalgo, whose main opponent (Les Républicains, LR) in the mayor’s office and whose […]
Kirill Hanuna, from troublemaker to populist tribune
Kirill Hanuna, on the set of “Touche pas à mon poste! “, in Boulogne (Hautes-de-Seine), September 30, 2021. DENIS ALLARD/LEEXTRA/OPALE Rarely have we seen that this week the Audiovisual and Digital Communications Regulatory Authority (Arcom) made two decisions on two series of the same program presented by the same presenter and broadcast on the same […]
Kirill Hanuna and politicians: audience first
Cyril Hannoun at the Parc des Princes in Paris on April 17, 2022. FRANK FIFE / AFP Kirill Hanuna, his follies, his excesses, but above all… his audience. Several politicians assessed that the host of “Touche pas à mon poste” (“TPMP”) went too far by insulting an elected official of the Republic. La France insoumise […]
The risk of power outages has increased in January 2023
RTE Executive Board Chairman Xavier Pieczyk at the launch of the Ecowatt system in Paris on October 11, 2022. Emmanuel Doonan / AFP France’s electricity supply in January 2023 is concentrated “more risk” than in October 2022, and this because the nuclear fleet is lower than expected, warned RTE, France’s electricity network manager, in a […]