Elizabeth Bourne votes on the new budget reading in the National Assembly on December 18, 2023. Ludovic Marin / AFP The National Assembly on Monday evening, December 18, rejected the motion of censure presented by La France insoumise (LFI), thereby adopting the 2024 state budget project in a new reading. The initiative received only 110 […]
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The French Parliament passed a law on the return of human remains to foreign countries
Rouen Mayor Pierre Albertin (left) and Maori Tribal Chief Ariki Nui Tumu Te Heuheu (right) in Rouen, October 23, 2007. Rouen Museum of Natural History in 1875, to a delegation from New Zealand. This is the first return of “body parts” from a French museum to their original culture, in accordance with UNESCO agreements. HALEY/SIPA […]
Jack Lang went on, but not yet, to head the Arab World Institute
The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, IMA President Jack Lange (centre) and French writer Jacques Attal, in Algeria, on August 26, 2022. Ludovic Marin / AFP Once again, Jack Lang is playing overtime at the helm of the Institute for the Arab World (IMA). The institution’s board of directors, headed by former culture minister […]
Immigration: “Rather than plowing the divide, let’s trust the citizens”
LThe refusal to discuss the government’s bill on asylum and immigration in a public session of the National Assembly is a manifestation of the impossibility of a calm parliamentary debate on this topic. Whatever the future of the text, the almost constant political debate on immigration in France will continue, more polarized and instrumentalized than […]
Departments are facing declining revenues and struggling to finalize their 2024 budget
Sixty million euros here; there are twenty-five million euros; Thirty million euros elsewhere… Busy drawing up the proposed 2024 budget, many departments are finding their projections showing gaping holes. On the question, the scissor effect, and more “catchers”The most worried warn: costs are increasing, while incomes are decreasing. Council of the Loire-Atlantique Department, “Budget impasse”, […]
Eric DuPont-Moret wants a new kind of testimony after his acquittal in the Court of Justice of the Republic
Minister of Justice, Eric DuPont-Moret, at the National Assembly on December 12, 2023. Julien Mouguet “For the World” A new Eric Dupont-Moret has arrived. At least, that’s what it appears from a series of meetings held at the Ministry of Justice in early December. With an acquittal in the Court of Justice of the Republic […]
Greens MP Benjamin Lucas defends the rejection motion: “There was a process to tighten the immigration text.”
Yveline Benjamin Lucas MP for the Environment, in the National Assembly, Paris, December 11, 2023. JULIEN MUGUET/JULIEN MUGUET FOR THE WORLD Greens MP Benjamin Lucas has condemned the government’s failure to withdraw the immigration bill after receiving a preliminary refusal in the National Assembly. Yvelin’s elected official thinks there won’t be a majority on the […]
Regarding the immigration bill, the government confronts the parliament with the French
“The French (…) very broadly supports our text, (…) Expect us to take strong action to reduce illegal immigration and better integrate the people we choose to welcome.chanted Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne during Government Questions on 12 December. On the second day of a motion to reject the immigration bill before the National Assembly, the […]
A majority in the Assembly is at risk of tearing down the immigration text
Government members surround Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne at the National Assembly in Paris on December 12, 2023. Julien Mouguet “For the World” Macron’s elected officials are preparing for an extremely dangerous week for the unity of their camp. Following a motion to reject the immigration bill in the Assembly, the Joint Committee (CMP), made up […]
Death of Philosopher Antonio Negri, Intellectual Figure of the Alter-Globalization Left
Antonio (known as “Tony”) Negri died on December 16, 2023, in Paris, aged 90. A major philosopher of Marxism, a communist activist, a famous and controversial intellectual figure of social struggles in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, Antonio Negri was also a popular figure in the alter-globalization movements of the 1990s and 2000s. His […]