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“For the Patriots, it would have been much easier just to vote against the return regulation,” she said, as the group opposes migration policy being drawn in Brussels, believing that’s a job for national capitals. “But we realized, if we do not cooperate now to form this right-wing majority, the left-wing proposal that would then have a majority would be much, much worse.” A willingness to play the Brussels political game is unusual for a group made up of ideologically diverse nationalist parties united mainly by their desire to repatriate powers from Brussels to capitals, and which have traditionally shown…
But France, which has made tackling economic imbalances a key aim of its G7 presidency this year, has taken a more conciliatory approach when it comes to dealing with China. French officials argue that underinvestment in the European Union and overconsumption in the U.S. as well as Chinese overproduction contributed to the current situation. At a G7 finance ministers meeting last month, French Finance Minister Roland Lescure said France wanted to move away from “finger-pointing” and engage with all partners, including China. “Global imbalances … are not sustainable. They’re growing, they’re persistent,” Lescure said at a press conference. “They have…
This was rubbished by Esmail Baghaei, spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, on Monday. “Albanian authorities, instead of responding to the legitimate and logical demands of their people, prefer to try to close the matter with these laughable accusations against Iran. Certainly, the Albanian people are too discerning to accept such claims.” The protest movement, dubbed the ‘flamingo revolution‘ due to the prevalence of the bird at the proposed development site, broke out on April 30 after a section of coastline in Zvernec, near the southern city of Vlora, was fenced off and guarded by private security. The land, once protected…
“Federal Chancellor Merz has therefore advised President Macron not to pursue the development of a joint fighter jet any further,” the official added. The project, known as the Future Combat Air System and launched in 2017, has stalled due to bitter disagreements between France’s Dassault and Germany’s Airbus Defence and Space over which company should take the lead on the project. FCAS, which also involves Spain, is meant to replace Germany’s Eurofighter and France’s Rafale jets by around 2040. The program includes a warplane — the main point of contention — as well as drones and a combat cloud — the…
Published on 08/06/2026 – 16:12 GMT+2 France’s Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin has ruled out stepping down amid growing outrage over judicial failings linked to the killing of an 11-year-old girl. The body of Lyhanna was found last week in south-western France, several days after she disappeared near the town of Fleurance on 29 May. The case has sparked nationwide anger after it emerged that the main suspect had previously faced multiple allegations involving minors. Speaking on Monday, Darmanin insisted his position was not in question as long as he continued to take responsibility. “The question of my remaining (in government)…
“La primaire est finie”, a lancé dimanche le candidat Insoumis lors de son meeting à Saint-Denis, décrétant son hégémonie sur l’ensemble de la gauche. S’est-il trop avancé ? Anthony Lattier discute avec Sarah Paillou et Klara Durand dans le nouvel épisode de Playbook Paris, le podcast de POLITICO.
Ireland is under fire over its continued sales of alumina to Russia, raising concerns that the country might be indirectly helping Moscow fuel its war machine against Ukraine. Sold as white powder, alumina is the raw material used to produce aluminium, a lightweight metal commonly found in weapons and ammunition on the battlefield. The timing of the revelations is particularly sensitive for Dublin, which is less than one month away from taking the reins of the EU Council’s six-month presidency. High Representative Kaja Kallas intends to raise the matter when she meets with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin in Dublin…
In boxes stored at a secret location in Le Havre, nearly 38,000 pairs of counterfeit trainers that arrived from China in 2011 had been awaiting their fate. Because behind these shoes lies one of the longest legal proceedings customs officers have ever had to handle. After fifteen years of legal wrangling, the French importer was finally sentenced in December 2025 to a customs fine of 1.56 million euros, 260,000 euros for customs-related money laundering, as well as three years in prison, two of them suspended. Customs officers in Le Havre can therefore finally turn the page, and also free up…
From the moment early humans looked upward and tried to make sense of the sky, the sun and the moon have been at the centre of everything – faith, timekeeping, agriculture, mythology, and art. This summer, Saatchi Gallery’s major new exhibition, The Sun and The Moon attempts something quite ambitious: to gather that entire spectrum of human fascination into nine gallery spaces across two floors, and present it through the eyes of more than 170 artists. It’s the second in Saatchi’s series examining how the natural world feeds creative practice, following last year’s enormously popular FLOWERS – Flora in Contemporary…
Thousands of people took to the streets of Albania to protest plans for luxury tourism developments linked to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump over the weekend. Demonstrators gathered in the capital, Tirana, and at the protected Vjosa-Narta lagoon on the country’s Adriatic coast, where campaigners say a project threatens one of the Mediterranean’s most important biodiversity hotspots. Waving Albanian flags and carrying inflatable pink flamingos — which have become the symbol of the movement — protesters chanted “Cancel the project!” and marched under banners reading “Ivanka go home” and “Albania is not for sale”. But what exactly is Kushner Island,…