Author: staff
Lorsque Nicolas Sarkozy, le 1er juillet dernier, a surpris son monde en recevant le président du Rassemblement national, Jordan Bardella, dans ses bureaux de la rue de Miromesnil, à Paris, certains observateurs y ont vu l’expression de sa rancoeur envers Emmanuel Macron. L’ex de l’Elysée avait trouvé là, pensait-on, une façon de faire suer ce président en faveur duquel il a toujours plaidé, jusque-là, auprès de sa famille politique mais qu’il ne pouvait plus voir en peinture. Il faut dire qu’à l’époque, Sarkozy s’était déjà bien éloigné de l’actuel occupant du Palais. Depuis la dissolution, notamment — une décision qu’il…
Cambodia saw residents seek shelter after Thailand launched airstrikes along the disputed border and Cambodian forces fired back with rockets and drones. Both governments say the other broke the ceasefire that paused fighting earlier this year. Tens of thousands have now fled border villages on both sides. Thai officials say more than fifty thousand people are in shelters, while Cambodia’s defence ministry and international media report that this week’s renewed clashes have driven more than twenty thousand people from their homes in Cambodia alone. As the toll grows, Cambodia says seven civilians have been killed and twenty wounded, while Thailand…
Cocaine overtook cannabis to become France’s most lucrative illicit drug market in 2023, generating €3.1 billion in sales as usage tripled over the past decade, according to a study published Monday by France’s drug observatory. The illicit drugs market in France reached €6.8 billion in 2023, nearly three times the €2.3 billion recorded in 2010, according to research by the French Observatory of Drugs and Addictive Tendencies and funded by the government’s Interministerial Mission to Combat Drugs and Addictive Behaviour. Cannabis generated €2.7 billion in 2023, making cocaine the top revenue-generating illicit drug for the first time despite far lower…
Hillman, a trade lawyer and career diplomat, was a key member of the Canadian negotiating team that faced off against Trump’s first administration during the talks that led to the creation of the USMCA. “While there will never be a perfect time to leave, this is the right time to put a team in place that will see the CUSMA Review through to its conclusion,” she wrote, using the Canadian acronym for the new North American trade pact. Despite the current trade disruptions and the aftermath of navigating the Covid-19 pandemic, Hillman said her greatest accomplishment was working to secure…
Updated: 09/12/2025 – 23:47 GMT+1 Pope Leo XIV said US President Donald Trump’s recent remarks about Europe were “trying to break apart what needs to be a very important alliance.” Pope Leo added that Europe’s role in seeking peace in Ukraine was important. … More
Published on 09/12/2025 – 17:52 GMT+1 France’s far-right National Rally (RN) party wants to reopen brothels run directly by sex workers. The party is preparing to submit a bill to parliament recommending that brothels, which were banned in France 1946, be reopened as cooperatives managed by sex workers, according to RN lawmaker Jean-Philippe Tanguy. The politician told the Le Monde newspaper that party leader Marine Le Pen backed the bill. “Sex workers would be empresses in their kingdom,” Tanguy told the radio station RTL. Prostitution itself is legal in France, although brothels, pimping and the sale of sex by minors…
BRUXELLES — Plus de 80% des entreprises européennes seront libérées de leurs obligations en matière d’information environnementale après que les institutions de l’UE sont parvenues lundi à un accord sur une proposition visant à assouplir la réglementation verte. L’accord est une victoire législative majeure pour la présidente de la Commission européenne, Ursula von der Leyen. Elle qui cherche à faire de l’allègement des démarches administratives pour les entreprises l’un des marqueurs de son second mandat. Toutefois, cette victoire a eu un coût politique : ce dossier a poussé au bord de l’effondrement la coalition qui avait permis sa réélection ;…
Published on 09/12/2025 – 18:36 GMT+1 More than two-thirds of women journalists, rights defenders and activists have reported violence online, with over 40% saying they have faced real-world attacks linked to digital abuse, a new study published by UN Women on Tuesday found. The report entitled “Tipping Point” focuses on an escalation in violence targeting such women alongside the rise of social media and artificial intelligence and draws on input from more than 6,900 human rights defenders, journalists and activists in 119 countries. The study by UN Women, the United Nations agency that promotes women’s rights, gender equality and empowerment…
Trump’s latest remarks appear to go further than his speech at the U.N. by suggesting that Khan chiefly represents people who have migrated to Britain, and further that they are at ideological odds with other Britons — a view echoed in the recent U.S. National Security Strategy document, which argued that immigration is weakening Europe. To vote for the capital’s mayor, voters must be resident in London and either be British or Irish citizens or citizens of a defined list of countries including Commonwealth nations, Denmark, Poland, Portugal and Spain who also have permission to enter or stay in the…
Italy is the setting for Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s latest push to secure firmer European support. The Ukrainian president met Pope Leo XIV at Castel Gandolfo on Tuesday before heading to talks with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome. He again ruled out giving up territory, despite growing pressure from Washington to accept a compromise with Russia. The visit follows meetings on Monday with leaders in London, Paris and Berlin. All backed Kyiv’s stance as negotiations with the United States struggle over a proposal that Ukraine hand control of the Donbas to Moscow. The Vatican said the pope urged continued dialogue and…