Over the weekend, French broadcaster Europe1 and newspaper Le Parisien reported that Macron had covertly decided to make the blue in ‘the Tricolore’ a little bit darker. Journalists Paul Larrouturou and Eliot Blondet in their new book, ‘Élysée Confidential’, claimed that the president made the decision over a year ago, …
Read More »Macron sells out the French to Harris. Washington wins
Are the French people supposed to just forget the fact that the US is now the ultimate beneficiary of the recent cancellation of a €56 billion, 50-year French defense contract with Australia – all because Joe Biden admitted it was “clumsy” and now Kamala Harris has arrived for this week’s ‘Paris …
Read More »Macron goes nuclear to protect France’s energy independence in green future
“To guarantee France’s energy independence, to guarantee our country’s electricity supply, and to reach our goals – notably carbon neutrality in 2050 – we will for the first time in decades revive the construction of nuclear reactors in our country, and continue to develop renewable energy,” Macron said in a …
Read More »‘I don’t think, I KNOW’: Macron insists Morrison LIED to him about submarine deal & now up to Australian PM to rebuild trust
“We will see what he will deliver,” Macron said at the G20 summit in Rome when pressed about whether he could ever trust Morrison again. “Do you think he lied to you?” a reporter asked directly. Morrison denied lying, insisting at a separate press meeting that he had openly told Macron …
Read More »Macron tells Johnson to ‘respect rules of the game’ at meeting over fishing licenses dispute – media
The leaders agreed on a “de-escalation” in the “coming days,” a French presidential official told BFM TV after Macron and Johnson held closed-door talks on the sidelines on the G20 in Rome, Italy. Macron wanted to convey to his UK counterpart a message of “seriousness and respect for a great …
Read More »‘What we did was clumsy,’ Biden tells Macron during first meeting after AUKUS submarine deal row
“What we did was clumsy, it was not done with a lot of grace,” Biden said on Friday. “I want to make it clear, France is an extremely, extremely valued partner,” he added. France is a power in its own right, and “we have the same value system.” “For me, …
Read More »Macron’s call for global abolition of death penalty may end up in another embarrasment as it’s doomed to failure
France was the last western European country to abolish capital punishment. West Germany abolished it in 1949, the UK in 1965, yet it took France until 1981. Amazingly, the last person to be guillotined in France was as recently as 1977. Nevertheless, Macron wants to celebrate the fact that it …
Read More »Mali summons French envoy after Macron says Malian govt. ‘isn’t even a government’ in a row over troops withdrawal
A diplomatic row raging between France and Mali deepened further on Tuesday after the Malian Foreign Ministry summoned the French envoy to express “indignation and disapproval” over French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent remarks suggesting that the current Malian government has no right to question France’s military maneuvers in the Sahel …
Read More »How France’s fury over its sub snub – and Boris’s condescending put down of Macron – could wreck peace in Northern Ireland
Boris Johnson rubbed salt in French wounds with his insolent “donnez-moi un break” remark on the AUKUS row that erupted after the loss of a lucrative submarine contract for Paris. And if that weren’t bad enough, Johnson’s supercilious English accent bastardizing the French language was bound to have really got …
Read More »France to return ambassador to Washington after Biden’s call to Macron in wake of major military contract snub
Biden phoned Macron on Wednesday to discuss last week’s announcement of a new security pact between the US, UK and Australia – which resulted in France losing a multi-billion-dollar shipbuilding contract, among other things – and “agreed that the situation would have benefitted from open consultations among allies on matters …
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