Tag: Manuel Valls

• Wednesday, December 7th 2016 - 10:22 UTC

  Cazeneuve new French PM after Valls resigns to focus on presidential campaign

  

  Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve will replace Manuel Valls as prime minister of France, following the latter's resignation aimed at “giving his best” to the Socialist Party's presidential campaign for 2017. Valls announced Monday he would run after the incumbent and unpopular President Francois Hollande declined last week to seek a second term in office.

• Friday, December 2nd 2016 - 09:33 UTC

  Hollande will not run for re-election; conservative Fillon calls it a lucid reaction “to failure”

  

  French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday he would not seek a second term in next year's presidential election, a surprise move that clears the way for an alternative left-wing candidate, most probably his prime minister Manuel Valls.

• Friday, February 12th 2016 - 06:33 UTC

  France claims the EC has done ”too little too late to help (struggling) farmers”

  

  France called on the European Commission to do more to help its struggling livestock industry, seeking to defuse protests that have seen farmers block highways and supermarkets.

• Saturday, January 23rd 2016 - 04:41 UTC

  France confirms Hollande visit to Argentina, Uruguay and Peru next month

  

  President François Hollande will be visiting Argentina next month, the country’s prime minister, Manuel Valls, confirmed to President Mauricio Macri in Davos, where the two leaders discussed the remaining details of the trip that will include stops in Uruguay, Peru and Argentina.

• Monday, June 29th 2015 - 06:20 UTC

  Greek banks closed and Tsipras takes the dispute with ECB and IMF to the brink

  

  Greek banks are to remain closed and capital controls will be imposed, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced. Speaking after the European Central Bank (ECB) said it was not increasing emergency funding to Greek banks, Tsipras underlined Greek deposits were safe.

• Tuesday, September 23rd 2014 - 05:43 UTC

  Merkel praises France on reforms, but deferred to Brussels the controversial budget deficit issue

  

  Germany's Angela Merkel said on Monday after meeting French premier Manuel Valls that she was impressed by the number of reforms Paris had launched, but deferred to Brussels on the halting French efforts to reduce its public deficit.

• Tuesday, August 26th 2014 - 01:47 UTC

  French government and opposition in disarray; Euro austerity biting

  

  French President Francois Hollande asked his prime minister on Sunday to form a new government, looking to impose his will on the cabinet after rebel leftist ministers had called for an economic policy U-turn. The surprise move came the day after outspoken Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg had condemned what he called fiscal “austerity” and attacked Euro zone powerhouse Germany's “obsession” with budgetary rigor.

• Tuesday, April 1st 2014 - 03:41 UTC

  Hollande changes policy and names pro-business prime minister

  

  French President Francois Hollande has chosen centrist Interior Minister Manuel Valls as his new prime minister, replacing Jean-Marc Ayrault who quit after the ruling Socialists were trounced in local elections. The 51-year-old Valls has been compared with “New Labor” former British premier Tony Blair both for his pro-business ideas and his dashing style.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2013 - 05:03 UTC

  Major cocaine catch in Paris shipped from Venezuela triggers more questions than replies

  

  With more arrests and airline workers suspected, Venezuela's top police official said that the smuggling of 1.5 tons of cocaine in 31 suitcases on an Air France flight from Caracas to Paris has led to nine arrests on two continents.