Tag: Francois Hollande

• Monday, December 21st 2015 - 07:59 UTC

  PM Cameron asks for flexibility from EU leaders; confirms 2017 referendum

  

  Britain's David Cameron has urged EU leaders to show “flexibility” and “work together” to help him reduce migration numbers. The PM said “unprecedented” levels of immigration were “undermining support for the European Union” in the UK. Cameron presented his bid to reform the EU for over half-an-hour at dinner at the European Council summit in Brussels.

• Monday, December 7th 2015 - 08:19 UTC

  France's far right National Front with record gains in regional elections

  

  France's far-right National Front (FN) saw record gains in the first round of regional polls on Sunday, held under a state of emergency just three weeks after Islamic extremists killed 130 people in Paris. Despite the strong result, it faces an uphill battle to clinch a run-off vote next week after Socialists withdrew candidates to block it from power.

• Saturday, November 21st 2015 - 08:30 UTC

  UN Security Council authorizes “all necessary measures” to fight ISIS

  

  The UN Security Council on Friday (Nov 20) authorized countries to “take all necessary measures” to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group in a resolution that won unanimous backing a week after the Paris attacks.

• Wednesday, November 18th 2015 - 07:14 UTC

  France and Russia agree on an unusual alliance against the Islamic State

  

  France and Russia agreed to coordinate their military and security services in an unusual alliance against Islamic State jihadists in Syria on Tuesday after a devastating attack on Paris and the bombing of a Russian plane.

• Saturday, November 14th 2015 - 09:28 UTC

  Night of gun and bombs attacks in Paris: at least 150 people killed

  

  France has declared a national state of emergency and tightened borders after at least 150 people were killed in a night of gun and bomb attacks in Paris. Eighty people were reported killed after gunmen burst into the Bataclan concert hall and took dozens hostage. The siege ended when security forces stormed the building.

• Wednesday, November 11th 2015 - 05:50 UTC

  Germany mourns one of the architects of modern, unified Europe, Helmut Schmidt

  

  Helmut Schmidt, who served as West German Chancellor from 1974 to 1982, has died aged 96, his office says. Mr. Schmidt, who was a Social Democrat, was an architect of the European Monetary System, which linked EU currencies and helped pave the way to the euro. He also helped to consolidate Germany's post-war economic boom.

• Friday, October 30th 2015 - 05:52 UTC

  Uruguayan president helps revive young passenger in a flight to Paris

  

  Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez put his old profession as physician to use helping revive a young French allergic woman on a flight to Paris, according to a report on the Montevideo weekly Busqueda. The incident occurred last Monday.

• Wednesday, September 30th 2015 - 09:21 UTC

  French Mistral helicopter carriers, originally for Russia, sold to Egypt

  

  France has agreed to sell two Mistral helicopter carriers to Egypt for 950 million Euros after their sale to Russia was canceled in August, French officials said on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2015 - 05:58 UTC

  French president to announce emergency measures in support of farmers

  

  President Francois Hollande has said he would unveil emergency measures to help France’s livestock and dairy farmers on Wednesday. Tuesday’s announcement came as as livestock farmers caused chaos in the north west of France, using tractors and trucks full of manure and rubble to block roads.

• Monday, July 20th 2015 - 08:06 UTC

  France calls for an 'Euro government” led by a 'vanguard of countries'

  

  France favors a “stronger organization” behind the Euro led by “a vanguard of countries”, French President Francois Hollande said in an interview published Sunday. In the past week “the European spirit prevailed” in addressing the Greek crisis, he told the weekly Journal du Dimanche.