Tag: Emmanuel Macron

• Friday, December 18th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Macron tests positive for Covid-19; track-and-trace among EU leaders

  

  President Emmanuel Macron tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday, prompting a track-and-trace effort across Europe following numerous meetings between the French leader and EU heads of government in recent days. Macron, 42, was running France remotely after going into quarantine in the Elysee Palace, the presidency said.

• Monday, November 16th 2020 - 08:22 UTC

  Macron favors Europe's own independent and sovereign strategy, no matter how governs in US

  

  Europe still needs its own independent and sovereign defence strategy, even if it is dealing with a new U.S. government which may result in friendlier ties, French President Emmanuel Macron told the “Revue Grand Continent” publication.

• Friday, October 30th 2020 - 08:27 UTC

  Terrorist murders three people in a Nice church; European leaders come out in support of Macron

  

  France raised the security alert for French territory to the highest level on Thursday after a knifeman murdered three people at a church, beheading at least one of them in what was described as a terror attack in the city of Nice.

• Tuesday, October 20th 2020 - 09:17 UTC

  France remains in shock and anger over the beheading of a history teacher

  

  French police have conducted a series of raids targeting extremist networks, three days after the beheading of a history teacher who had shown his pupils a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.

• Friday, October 16th 2020 - 09:01 UTC

  Critical Friday for post-Brexit talks: EU insists Johnson must make concessions

  

  The negotiations between Britain and the European Union over their future relationship are lurching toward a crisis after European Union leaders told Boris Johnson he must make concessions only hours before the prime minister is due to decide whether to walk away.

• Thursday, October 15th 2020 - 09:34 UTC

  Macron orders night curfew for Paris and eight other cities, a third of French population

  

  President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday ordered a nighttime curfew for Paris and eight other French cities to contain the spread of COVID-19 after daily new infection rates reached alarming record levels.

• Monday, October 12th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Johnson talks to Macron for a secure post Brexit deal, but fisheries remain a major issue

  

  Boris Johnson has told the French president the UK wants to “explore every avenue” to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, days before the PM's self-imposed deadline. Johnson told Emmanuel Macron “intensive talks” were needed to “bridge significant gaps” remaining across the negotiating table.

• Wednesday, October 7th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  French parliament approves law regulating “kid influencers” work and funds

  

  When kids become YouTube or Instagram sensations, should they be considered child workers? And who looks after their money? The French parliament has attempted to answer those questions with a new law passed on Tuesday.

• Saturday, September 5th 2020 - 07:22 UTC

  Macron, “to be French is to defend the right to laugh, jest, mock and caricature”

  

  The right to mock and caricature, even religion, is an essential part of being French, President Emmanuel Macron said at a naturalization ceremony on Friday, days after the start of a trial of the accused accomplices in an attack by gunmen on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2015.

• Friday, August 7th 2020 - 08:27 UTC

  Macron pledges aid to Lebanon conditioned to anti-corruption reforms

  

  French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday promised aid to Lebanon but reassured angry citizens reeling from a lethal blast that killed at least 145 people that no blank checks will be given to its leaders unless they enact reforms and end rife corruption.