Showing posts with label Emmanuel Macron. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emmanuel Macron. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Macron plant neuen Militärdienst und deutet Entsendung von Soldaten in die Ukraine an

BERLINER ZEITUNG: Frankreichs Präsident möchte einen neuen freiwilligen Militärdienst einführen. Zudem stellt er in Aussicht, nach einem Friedensschluss französische Truppen in die Ukraine zu entsenden.

In den kommenden Tagen wird Frankreichs Präsident Emmanuel Macron die Einführung eines freiwilligen Militärdienstes bekannt geben. Das kündigte er am Dienstag im Interview mit dem Sender RTL an. Ziel sei es, die Verbindung zwischen Gesellschaft und Streitkräften zu festigen.

„Es ist ganz klar, dass wir den Pakt zwischen Armee und Nation stärken müssen“, erklärte Macron. In Zeiten „hybrider Kriegsführung“ sei es wichtig, dass möglichst viele Bürger verstünden, „was unsere Streitkräfte sind, wie sie funktionieren“, und sich an der militärischen Reserve beteiligten. » | Raphael Schmeller | Dienstag, 25. November 2025

Saturday, November 01, 2025

Warum sind viele Franzosen so wütend auf Präsident Macron? | Fokus Europa

Nov 1, 2025 | Wirtschaftskrise, politische Stagnation, Proteste seit Monaten – Frankreich ist wütend auf seine Politiker - allen voran auf Präsident Macron.

Monday, October 20, 2025

Emmanuel Macron a reçu Nicolas Sarkozy avant son incarcération

LE FIGARO : INFO LE FIGARO - Le président de la République a convié son prédécesseur vendredi à l’Élysée.

Emmanuel Macron s’astreint publiquement au silence. Mais cela n’a pas empêché le chef de l’État de se manifester en coulisses. À quelques jours de l’incarcération de Nicolas Sarkozy, qui est attendu mardi à la prison de la Santé pour purger la lourde peine dont il a écopé - et dont il a fait appel - dans l’affaire du financement libyen de sa campagne, l’ex-chef de l’État a été discrètement reçu à l’Élysée. » | Par Arthur Berdah | lundi 20 octobre 2025

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Friday, October 10, 2025

Macron Reappoints Lecornu as French PM, Four Days after His Resignation | BBC News

Oct 10, 2025 | President Emmanuel Macron has asked Sébastien Lecornu to return as French prime minister only four days after he stood down from the post.

Macron made the announcement late on Friday, hours after meeting all the main parties together at the Élysée Palace, except the leaders of the far right and far left.

Lecornu's return came as a surprise, as he said on national TV only two days ago he was not "chasing the job" and his "mission is over".



Emmanuel Macron reconduit Sébastien Lecornu pour un mandat plus périlleux que jamais : RÉCIT - Le président a maintenu le premier ministre en le chargeant de faire adopter un budget, après avoir réuni vendredi les partis, hors RN et LFI. »

Wednesday, October 08, 2025

French PM Sébastien Lecornu Tries to Avert New Election as Political Crisis Continues | BBC News

Oct 8, 2025 | Outgoing Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said political parties have shown a "willingness" that could stave off the threat of new parliamentary elections.

Lecornu, on Monday, became the third French PM to leave his job in less than a year.

He has until Wednesday evening to come up with a plan for the "stability of the country" and has held talks with several political parties.


Tuesday, October 07, 2025

Macron Under Pressure to Call Snap Parliamentary Elections or Resign

THE GUARDIAN: French president’s former allies join opponents in demanding he act to end a spiralling political crisis

France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, is under intense pressure to call snap parliamentary elections or resign as former allies join his opponents in demanding he act to end a spiralling political crisis in the EU’s second biggest economy.

Macron’s first prime minister on Tuesday urged the president to step down amid mounting frustration even within the president’s own camp over one of the worst spells of political chaos in France since the foundation of its Fifth Republic in 1958.

Édouard Philippe, prime minister from 2017 to 2020 and now leader of a Macron-allied party, said he should announce an early presidential election once a budget for next year was adopted. Macron was re-elected in April 2022 for a five-year term, but since snap legislative elections in 2024 his appointees as prime minister have been unable to summon a parliamentary majority to pass a budget. » | Jon Henley in Paris | Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Monday, October 06, 2025

Rücktritt von Lecornu bringt Frankreich ins Wanken: „Niemand nimmt Macron noch ernst“

BERLINER ZEITUNG: Nach nur vier Wochen im Amt wirft Premier Lecornu hin: Frankreich steht vor einem politischen Scherbenhaufen. Experte Jacob Ross sieht das Land in einer Systemkrise.

Es ist die schwerste politische Krise in Frankreich seit Jahrzehnten: Nach nicht einmal vier Wochen im Amt ist Premierminister Sébastien Lecornu am Montag zurückgetreten. Seine erst am Vorabend ernannte neue Regierung schaffte es nicht einmal bis zur Amtsübergabe. Lecornu war bereits der dritte Regierungschef in Paris binnen eines Jahres, der an der tiefen Spaltung zwischen den politischen Lagern links, rechts und der Mitte scheiterte. Die Opposition forderte umgehend Neuwahlen, und in Teilen sogar den Rücktritt von Präsident Emmanuel Macron.

„Das kurze Statement von Lecornu heute Morgen zeigt, wie verzweifelt auch Teile der Spitzenpolitik mittlerweile sind“, sagte Jacob Ross, Frankreich-Experte der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (DGAP), gegenüber der Berliner Zeitung. Der Premier habe am Ende seines Statements mit den Tränen gekämpft, als er erklärte, es gebe „zu viele rote“ und „nicht genug grüne Linien“. Besonders hart ging Lecornu mit den politischen Parteien ins Gericht, auch mit der eigenen. Trotz der dramatischen Lage im In- und Ausland habe es keinerlei Kompromissbereitschaft gegeben, so der Vorwurf. » | Raphael Schmeller | Montag, 6. Oktober 2025

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Macrons to Submit Scientific Evidence to US Court to Prove Brigitte Was Not Born a Man

THE GUARDIAN: French president and wife allege rightwing influencer Candace Owens is using defamatory attacks against them to boost media profile

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife plan to present scientific evidence to a US court to prove that Brigitte Macron was not born a man, the lawyer representing them in a defamation suit has said.

The couple filed the suit in July against Candace Owens, a rightwing influencer, and her business, alleging continuing defamatory attacks against them in order to boost the profile of her media platform, gain more audience and make money.

Owens said last year she would “stake [her] entire professional reputation on the fact that Brigitte Macron is in fact a man” named Jean-Michel Trogneux, and has since doubled down on the false claim, including in an eight-part podcast series.

The Macrons’ lawyer, Tom Clare, of the law firm Clare Locke, which has won several high-profile defamation cases, told the BBC’s Fame under Fire podcast that Brigitte Macron had found the claims “incredibly upsetting” and they were a “distraction” for the French president. » | Jon Henley, Europe correspondent |Thursday, September 18, 2025

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Les Français accueillent froidement la nomination de Sébastien Lecornu à Matignon

LE FIGARO : SONDAGE - Si la méthode du nouveau premier ministre est largement plébiscitée, les Français doutent que celle-ci porte ses fruits, comme le révèle une enquête Odoxa-Backbone pour Le Figaro.

En s’installant ce mercredi midi rue de Varenne, Sébastien Lecornu n’a pas voulu se perdre dans les digressions. Deux minutes à peine de discours sur le perron de Matignon, ponctuées de promesses de «rupture». «Sur le fond» et «pas que sur la forme», a assuré le nouveau premier ministre lors de la passation de pouvoirs. Mais le ministre démissionnaire des Armées part déjà avec un boulet au pied, comme le révèle un sondage Odoxa-Backbone pour Le Figaro.

La promotion de ce fidèle du chef de l’État ne correspond pas aux «attentes» d’une large majorité des Français (69%), à l’exception des soutiens du chef de l’État et ceux de la droite. Il est même moins bien accueilli que ses deux derniers prédécesseurs : plus d’un tiers du pays (36%) s’était réjoui de la nomination de François Bayrou et jusqu’à 45% pour celle de Michel Barnier. Il faut dire que le jeune chef de gouvernement, plus habitué à la discrétion de l’Hôtel de Brienne, doit encore combler un déficit de popularité. Seuls 43% des Français ont une «bonne opinion» de ce transfuge de droite, qui a connu tous les gouvernements d’Emmanuel Macron. » | Par Célestine Gentilhomme et Service Infographie | mercredi 10 septembre 2025

New French PM Sébastien Lecornu promises ‘profound break’ with past politics: Lecornu, 39, faces difficult task of gaining enough support from divided parliament to pass a budget »

Tuesday, September 09, 2025

Emmanuel Macron Appoints His Third Prime Minister in a Year

THE GUARDIAN: Sébastien Lecornu, a presidential ally, is tasked with bringing France’s divided parties together to pass a budget

Sébastien Lecornu, a close ally of Emmanuel Macron, has been appointed prime minister, tasked with consulting France’s divided political parties to try to find a consensus on the budget.

The 39-year-old began his political career in the traditional right party of Nicolas Sarkozy before moving to Macron’s centre in 2017 and is seen as fiercely loyal to the president.

His promotion from defence minister shows Macron’s determination to press on with a minority government that stands firmly behind his pro-business economic reform agenda, under which taxes on business and the wealthy have been cut and the retirement age raised.

However, in an unusual move in French politics, Macron’s office said the president had asked Lecornu to hold talks with all political forces in parliament in view of finding compromises on the budget and other policies before naming his cabinet. » | Angelique Chrisafis in Paris | Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Sébastien Lecornu à Matignon, la récompense d’un fidèle du président : PORTRAIT - Au gouvernement depuis 2017, le transfuge de la droite âgé de 39 ans a traversé toutes les crises politiques et su se forger une place de choix dans le dispositif macroniste. Mais cette nouvelle étape s’annonce périlleuse. »

Former un gouvernement, bâtir un budget, éviter la censure… Les cinq travaux qui attendent Sébastien Lecornu : À peine nommé à Matignon, l’ancien ministre des Armées devra former son gouvernement, avant de bâtir en urgence un budget, et de reprendre de nombreux dossiers laissés en suspens. »

Monday, September 08, 2025

France’s Political Crisis Reveals Deep Rift between the People and Their Politicians

THE GUARDIAN: The likely fall of prime minister François Bayrou exposes a political malaise that is likely to sour French politics well beyond the 2027 presidential election as the far right exploits the moment

As the French government faces likely collapse in a confidence vote on Monday, plunging the eurozone’s second biggest economy and key diplomatic power into a domestic political crisis, Jonathan Denis, a 42-year-old a bank manager and health rights campaigner, was concerned about the terrible impact it will have on France’s dying and terminally ill.

The centrist president Emmanuel Macron had promised assisted dying and improved palliative care would be the biggest social reform of his second term but the bill, which had been scheduled to go before the senate next month, now risks being delayed once more by the unpredictable revolving door of four prime ministers in just over three years.

“Sick people who are suffering and want a form of assisted dying because they can’t cope, will find this catastrophic – if they have the money, they’ll have to travel to Switzerland, if they’re physically able, they’ll go to Belgium or people will violently take their lives, which unfortunately is often the case in France,” Denis said.

Denis’s father, a laboratory technician in rural eastern France with terminal cancer, chose to end his life through illegal, clandestine euthanasia in 2008 – “I was plunged into grief while having to keep the secret about how he died,” Denis said. Now he leads the campaign for assisted dying and palliative care, as president of the Association for the Right to die with dignity. It is a sign of France’s troubled and patchy health service that 20 départements across France don’t even have a dedicated palliative care unit. This has come to symbolise how Macron, despite his diplomatic efforts on the world stage, is facing political deadlock at home.

On Monday, the centrist French prime minister François Bayrou, a 74-year-old tractor-driving southwestern politician who calls himself a consensus-builder, is expected to be ousted in a confidence vote, which will bring down his minority government after only nine months. The previous prime minister, the rightwing former Brexit negotiatior, Michel Barnier, lasted only three months before he too was brought down by parliament last December. » | Angelique Chrisafis in Paris | Sunday, September 7, 2025

France's Economic Crisis Boosts Marine Le Pen's Nationalist Right Political Agenda

Sep 8, 2025 | “She’s showing that the country is paralysed without her. She’s showing that traditional parties have failed.”

France’s economic crisis is “really helpful” to Marine Le Pen’s political agenda, says former economic adviser Shahin Vallee.


Emmanuel Macron «condamne avec la plus grande fermeté» l’attentat de Jérusalem-Est et défend «une solution politique»

LE FIGARO : Le chef de l’État a indiqué sur X adresser ses «plus sincères condoléances aux familles des victimes et à tout le peuple israélien.»

La France «condamne avec la plus grande fermeté l’attentat qui vient de survenir à Jérusalem-Est », a déclaré lundi Emmanuel Macron, présentant ses «plus sincères condoléances aux familles des victimes et à tout le peuple israélien». » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | lundi 8 septembre 2025

Un attentat à Jérusalem-Est fait cinq morts et plusieurs blessés, le Hamas salue l’attaque : «Les secouristes et ambulanciers ont constaté le décès de quatre personnes, un homme d’environ 50 ans et trois hommes dans la trentaine», a indiqué le Magen David Adom, l’équivalent israélien de la Croix-Rouge. »

Friday, August 29, 2025

Moscou dénonce les «insultes vulgaires» de Macron contre Poutine «dépassant les limites de la décence»

LE FIGARO : Le président Emmanuel Macron avait qualifié la semaine dernière Vladimir Poutine d’«ogre» et de «prédateur».

La diplomatie russe a dénoncé ce vendredi les «insultes vulgaires» et «dépassant les limites de la décence» du président français Emmanuel Macron, qui avait qualifié la semaine dernière Vladimir Poutine d’«ogre» et de «prédateur». » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | vendredi 29 août 2025

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Antisémitisme : Macron affirme que les «accusations d'inaction» de Netanyahou «offensent la France tout entière»

LE FIGARO : Dans un courrier officiel adressé au président français la semaine dernière, le premier ministre israélien avait accusé Emmanuel Macron «d’alimenter le feu antisémite» en France.

Emmanuel Macron estime que les «accusations d'inaction» portées par Benyamin Netanyahou envers la France en matière de lutte contre l'antisémitisme constituent une «offense» pour le pays «tout entier» et exhorte le premier ministre israélien à sortir de sa «fuite en avant meurtrière» à Gaza, dans une lettre rendue publique mardi 26 août par le quotidien Le Monde . » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | mardi 26 août 2025

Sunday, August 24, 2025

L'ambassadeur américain en France dénonce «l'absence d'action suffisante» d’Emmanuel Macron face à l’antisémitisme

LE FIGARO : Dans une lettre adressée au chef de l’État, le diplomate américain exprime «sa profonde inquiétude face à la flambée de l’antisémitisme en France et à l’absence d’action suffisante du gouvernement pour le combattre».

L'ambassadeur américain en France Charles Kushner a dénoncé «l'absence d'action suffisante» du président Emmanuel Macron contre l'antisémitisme, rejoignant les critiques du premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahou.

Dans une lettre adressée au chef de l'État obtenue dimanche par l'AFP, l'ambassadeur exprime «sa profonde inquiétude face à la flambée de l'antisémitisme en France et à l'absence d'action suffisante de (son) gouvernement pour le combattre». » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | dimanche 24 août 2025

Antisémitisme : Paris convoque l’ambassadeur américain en France après ses accusations «inacceptables» visant Emmanuel Macron : Dans une lettre adressée au chef de l’État, le diplomate Charles Kushner, en poste à Paris, pointe «l’absence d’action suffisante» du gouvernement français face à «la flambée de l’antisémitisme» dans le pays. Le Quai d’Orsay dénonce des propos «pas à la hauteur de la qualité du lien transatlantique entre la France et les États-Unis». »

THE GUARDIAN: France summons US ambassador Charles Kushner over antisemitism allegations: Kushner says in letter to Macron he’s concerned over ‘rise of antisemitism’ and ‘lack of sufficient action’ to confront it »

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Full interview: French President Macron Discusses White House Summit on War in Ukraine

Aug 19, 2025 | Watch Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker's full exclusive interview with French President Emmanuel Macron after his meeting with President Trump and other European leaders at the White House to discuss the war in Ukraine.


Under no circumstances should Putin be given the opportunity to annex Ukrainian territory. Putin is the aggressor, so he should be punished for his crimes, not be allowed to profit from them.

If Putin gets the sense that he has gained from his invasion, in a short time, he will be invading another country. That man will stop at nothing.

I said at the very start that he should be stopped, but the international community was lacking the courage to do anything meaningful about his illegal invasion.

Trump’s idea of a land swap is absurd. That is the way of the appeaser. If the international community goes along with that crazy and unfair idea, Putin will learn that he can get away with his heinous crimes. — © Mark Alexander

Saturday, July 26, 2025

'Not In Favour': Meloni Shuts Down Macron on Palestine Move; ‘If Something Doesn’t Exist…’

July 26, 2025 | Italian PM Giorgia Meloni has strongly opposed French President Macron’s plan to recognize Palestine at the UN. Joining the U.S. and Israel, Meloni said, “If something does not exist, you cannot recognize it.” Her remarks follow Germany’s similar stance and growing European division on Palestinian statehood. With Trump and Netanyahu also condemning Macron’s move, is France becoming isolated in the West?


On the Palestinian question, Macron is right and Meloni is wrong. In order for the Palestinian state to come into existence, you must first recognise the Palestinians’ right to have their own state. Then, you must take all the necessary steps to bring that state into existence. Palestinians, like all peoples, deserve to have their own homeland. Basta! – © Mark Alexander

Friday, July 25, 2025

France to Recognise Palestinian State in September | BBC News

Jul 25, 2025 | France will become the first G7 nation to recognise a Palestinian state when it makes a statement before the UN in September, President Emmanuel Macron has said. Palestinian officials have welcomed Macron’s decision, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it “a launch pad to annihilate Israel”. The US also “strongly rejects” the declaration, with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling the move “reckless”. Macron’s decision has added growing pressure to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to also recognise the State of Palestine, which is already recognised by more than 140 of the 193 UN member states.


President Macron is a very brave man. He is also a man with a sense of fairness. Bravo! – © Mark Alexander

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

French President and Wife Sue Rightwing US Commentator Candace Owens for Defamation

THE GUARDIAN: Owens has claimed that France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, is a man, and that French president is controlled by CIA

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife, Brigitte Macron, are suing the rightwing commentator Candace Owens for defamation.

In a suit filed on Wednesday in Delaware against Owens and her businesses, the Macrons say Owens has engaged in ongoing defamatory attacks against them in order to elevate her media platform, gain more audience and make money. » | Rachel Leingang | Wednesday, July 23, 2025