Macron ally charms Europe’s liberals
Astrid Panosyan was the star of the show at the annual gathering of Europe’s liberals in Madrid. The 47-year-old businesswoman, who is a close political ally of Emmanuel Macron and a co-founder of his...
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French leaders mobilize against motorist protesters
PARIS — Team Macron is fighting back as the Yellow Jacket protest drags on. For the fourth consecutive day, the grassroots movement took to the streets Tuesday, blockading toll booths, truck stops and...
View ArticleMacron talks tough after Yellow Jackets riot in Paris
President Emmanuel Macron vowed on Saturday that rioters who clashed with police under the Arc de Triomphe, set fire to vehicles and looted shops would face justice after Paris was rocked by further...
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How Macron fights back in Yellow Jackets crisis
PARIS — As it turns out, the revolution will be televised. People around the world had a front-row view of wanton violence in Paris over the weekend as Yellow Jackets protesters ransacked the Arc de...
View ArticleStrasbourg shooting: What we know so far
The French prosecutor’s office opened a terrorism investigation Tuesday evening after a gunman opened fire in central Strasbourg, killing two people and wounding 12 others, according to local...
View ArticleDozens of Yellow Jacket protesters arrested in France after violent clashes
French police made nearly 60 arrests in Paris and dozens more in cities across the country following violent clashes with Yellow Jackets protesters, AFP reported. The Interior Ministry said that 32,000...
View ArticleFrench parliament approves controversial protest law
France’s National Assembly passed a controversial law Tuesday aimed at cracking down on violent protesters in the wake of the so-called Yellow Jackets demonstrations. The law would allow administrative...
View ArticleFrench politicians condemn violent street clashes in Paris
French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo were among the first to condemn Saturday’s violent clashes and lootings in the French capital driven by the Yellow Jackets...
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Macron’s opponents are piste off
PARIS — Just when things were looking up for Emmanuel Macron, he went skiing. The French president has of late started to turn the page on months of damaging protests and terrible poll ratings, just in...
View ArticleTwitter tweaks policy to unblock French voting awareness campaign
Twitter has changed its policies to allow a French government campaign encouraging people to vote in the upcoming European Parliament election, the platform said today, having previously blocked it on...
View ArticleMalta reaches deal to allocate 64 migrants in four EU countries
Malta struck deals with Germany, France, Portugal and Luxembourg to welcome 64 migrants rescued at sea in early April, the Associated Press reported Saturday. “All 64 migrants onboard Alan Kurdi will...
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Paris police brace for Labor Day protests
French police have taken into custody some 35 people in connection with May Day demonstrations on Wednesday in Paris, where authorities say they expect several thousand “radical activists” among the...
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The Yellow Jackets blinded by police weapons
Franck Didron was on the phone with his mother when he was blinded in the right eye. It was December 1, three weeks after the Yellow Jackets movement erupted on the streets of France, and the...
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French anger at police violence goes beyond Yellow Jackets
Last weekend in Nantes, western France, some 1,700 protesters gathered to march against police brutality. They were met with clouds of tear gas. It’s a common sight these days at protests across...
View ArticleItalian welcome for 82 migrants marks ‘end of Salvini’s propaganda,’ says...
Italy’s new left-leaning government has allowed a rescue vessel carrying 82 migrants to come ashore on the island of Lampedusa, after nearly a week at sea. Many of those on board the Ocean Viking,...
View ArticlePressure mounts on France’s Castaner after he admits Paris knife attack failures
French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner has come under increasing pressure over his handling of a knife attack in Paris in which four people were killed, the latest in a series of incidents that...
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How kompromat on a close Macron ally went viral
PARIS — It took just 24 hours for Benjamin Griveaux’s life to change dramatically. But Russian artist and activist Piotr Pavlenski had planned to bring him down for weeks, if not months. Griveaux on...
View ArticleMacron’s coronavirus tracking app sparks controversy in his camp
PARIS – French lawmakers want to have a say in how the government intends to use digital tracking as part of its lockdown exit strategy. Plans to submit the use of a contact tracing app to a...
View Article4 largest EU countries issue joint proposal to unlock asylum impasse
The interior ministers of Germany, France, Spain and Italy have issued a joint proposal aimed at unlocking an EU-wide compromise on the combustible issue of asylum. In a letter to the Commission dated...
View Article4 takeaways from France’s lockdown exit plan
PARIS — French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and key members of the government on Thursday announced final details of the country’s partial lockdown exit plan, starting Monday. The plan includes...
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How Google and Apple outflanked governments in the race to build coronavirus...
In the digital fight against COVID-19, Big Tech squared off against governments — and won. As policymakers around Europe pushed to develop smartphone apps to track the spread of the coronavirus, Apple...
View ArticleFrance sets date for second round of local elections
PARIS — France will hold the second round of local elections on June 28, coronavirus permitting, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said Friday. While there is “no consensus” among political parties on...
View ArticleFrance to ban chokehold arrests in drive to tackle police violence and racism
France will ban police from using chokeholds to carry out arrests and take a harder line on racism in police ranks, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said. Castaner’s decision follows outrage in...
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Macron under pressure over police violence and race
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron is under increasing pressure to address policing and race issues that have been crystallized in a series of protests and counterprotests in recent days. On...
View ArticleChokehold arrests to continue in France for now: reports
PARIS — French police will still be allowed to use chokeholds to carry out arrests until alternative methods are put in place in September, according to media reports. An internal note by the...
View ArticleEx-minister Castaner to lead Macron’s party in French parliament
PARIS — Christophe Castaner, an early ally of Emmanuel Macron, won a vote Thursday to become the new leader of the French president’s party in parliament, as the group struggles to reconcile internal...
View ArticleFrench government plan to rewrite security bill has MPs up in arms
The French government is walking on eggshells, wearing combat boots. The debate on a hotly contested security bill that would, among other measures, curtail the filming of police forces, on Friday...
View ArticleMacron’s MPs backtrack on controversial security bill
PARIS — After a week of drama and large demonstrations against a security bill that would ban sharing photographs of police officers “with the manifest aim to harm,” the French government announced...
View ArticleMacron ally blames Barnier for Brexit deal ‘imprecisions’ amid fishing row
The lengthy kerfuffle over fishing permits between the U.K. and France found its way into the French presidential campaign on Friday, with President Emmanuel Macron’s top man in parliament pointing a...
View ArticleNovak Djokovic could be barred from French Open
First Australia, now France? Tennis star Novak Djokovic could be barred from playing at the French Open after lawmakers backed a law requiring anyone wanting to enter sports arenas and other public...
View ArticleChristophe Castaner officiellement nommé à la tête du tunnel du Mont Blanc
L’ancien ministre de l’Intérieur Christophe Castaner a été nommé vendredi 18 novembre président du conseil d’administration du tunnel du Mont Blanc, d’après un décret paru au Journal officiel et...
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