Tag: Emmanuel Macron

• Monday, May 27th 2019 - 08:29 UTC

  Marine Le Pen wins her symbolic duel with President Macron

  

  French far-right leader Marine Le Pen won her symbolic duel with President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday, as euro-sceptic forces made strong gains in the EU parliamentary election.

• Thursday, May 16th 2019 - 09:08 UTC

  Merkel admits “intense debates” with Macron, but compromises are reached

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she and French President Emmanuel Macron have “intense debates” and think differently but can still find compromises, insisting that they are able to drive the European Union forward.

• Saturday, May 4th 2019 - 09:24 UTC

  Austria criticizes Strasbourg parliament costs and wants it moved to Brussels: French opposition

  

  Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has called for the European Parliament to stop travelling to Strasbourg for a week each month, as part of a wider proposal to overhaul the treaty underpinning the European Union.

• Monday, April 29th 2019 - 09:07 UTC

  Turkey and France clash over remembrance of the 1915 Armenian genocide

  

  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan upped his war of words with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron for creating a day of remembrance for the 1915 Armenian “genocide”.

• Wednesday, April 17th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Five years to rebuild Notre Dame, says Macron: “people will join to repair the national symbol”

  

  President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Tuesday that France would rebuild the fire-devastated Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, saying he hoped the work would be done in five years and the French people would pull together to repair their national symbol.

• Tuesday, April 16th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Macron vows to rebuild the 850-year old Gothic Notre Dame cathedral

  

  French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to rebuild the medieval cathedral of Notre-Dame after a major fire partially destroyed the Paris landmark. Firefighters managed to save the 850-year-old Gothic building's main stone structure, including its two towers, but the spire and roof collapsed.

• Wednesday, April 10th 2019 - 08:38 UTC

  Mrs. May pleads support from Berlin and Paris for a Brexit extension deadline

  

  British Prime Minister Theresa May toured Berlin and Paris on Tuesday to plead for an extension to the deadline for Brexit, which looked increasingly likely to be approved by EU leaders at a crunch meeting in Brussels.

• Tuesday, April 9th 2019 - 07:30 UTC

  PM May off to meet Merkel and Macron before EU summit

  

  British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday started a last-minute flurry of European diplomacy that includes visits to Paris and Berlin as she prepares for a make-or-break Brexit summit. Still struggling to get her EU divorce deal through parliament, May is hoping European Union leaders will agree on Wednesday to delay Brexit for a second time to stop Britain crashing out of the bloc two days later.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 10:07 UTC

  Angela Merkel to the rescue of an “orderly Brexit”

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she will fight for an “orderly Brexit” until “the very last hour”. Mrs Merkel said that current events were in a “state of flux”, adding that European Union leaders would try to react to whatever the UK proposed. The UK is due to leave the EU in 10 days' time, with or without a deal.

• Wednesday, January 23rd 2019 - 07:44 UTC

  France and Germany ratify integration process, but not all of Europe is happy

  

  France and Germany have signed a new treaty on Tuesday aimed at breathing new life into their place at the centre of the European Union. As the UK moves to leave the EU and a rising tide of populism challenges the core liberal values of the bloc, the new treaty commits wholeheartedly to defending it.