The EU27 is expected to vote today on a three-month extension to Article 50 until January 31st, 2020, with the possibility of the United Kingdom leaving early if a deal has been secured.
The EU is expected to delay a decision on whether to grant an extension of Article 50 amidst recent election uncertainty, whilst France remains an obstacle to a long Brexit delay.
French President Emmanuel Macron has indicated that the European Union will not grant a further extension to Article 50 if British MPs vote down the new proposed exit deal.
Far-left activist Hadama Traoré was arrested in the no-go Paris suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis after attempting to pay homage to Mickael Harpon, an Islamic convert who murdered four people at a Paris police station.
Mass migration costs French taxpayers around 10 billion euros per year, according to figures from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
French President Emmanuel Macron led a national tribute Tuesday to the four police employees slain in last week’s knife attack in Paris, calling them “victims of Islamic terrorism.”
(AFP) — A staffer at Paris police headquarters who stabbed four colleagues to death in a frenzied attack adhered to “a radical vision of Islam”, an anti-terror prosecutor said Saturday, amid a gathering political storm over security safeguards.
Around 27,000 police officers took to the streets of Paris this week in a protest directed at French President Emmanuel Macron over lack of resources and poor working conditions.
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that German Ambassador Richard Grenell will take on additional duties in his administration.
The man who stabbed four people to death in the Paris police headquarters was a convert to Islam enraged by a reprimand from a female colleague, according to reports.
Four police officers have been stabbed to death at a headquarters building near the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, France.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu accused French President Emmanuel Macron of “defaming Turkey” in a speech this week in which he reportedly defended a free media in Turkey and urged Ankara to take in more migrants.
Former French President Jacques Chirac was given full military honors on Monday as past and current world leaders gathered in Paris to attend his final service.
French President Emmanuel Macron used his platform at the United Nations climate summit in New York to call for diplomatic talks between the United States and Iran.
President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil told the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday that European nations pressuring the world to violate his nation’s sovereignty in defense of the Amazon Rainforest were guilty of “colonialism” and environmentalists were guilty of viewing indigenous Brazilians as “cavemen.”
French President Emmanuel Macron, one of the world’s most ardent supporters of the Paris climate agreement, has come out against a complaint lodged by Swedish climate alarmist Greta Thunberg with the United Nations that accuses France and four other countries of inaction against so-called global warming.
PARIS (AP) – Paris police used tear gas Saturday to disperse anti-government demonstrators who are trying to revive the yellow vest movement in protest at perceived economic injustice and French President Emmanuel Macron’s government.
French populist leader Marine Le Pen has proposed settling France’s immigration issues by recommending referendums on a number of immigration topics.
French President Emmanuel Macron is deploying experts to Saudi Arabia to investigate the origin of the attacks on major oil facilities that Washington and Riyadh blame on Iran, Paris said Wednesday.
PARIS (AP) – France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron has visited a new adult school she helped found in a poor Paris suburb.
Populist French MP Marine Le Pen struck out at President Emmanuel Macron over the weekend, denouncing the government’s heavy-handed tactics against Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) protesters.
Reforms to the European Union’s Dublin agreement could see countries that do not accept migrants banned from the Schengen passport-free zone, according to claims from a Greek newspaper.
MMA legend and Brazil’s Tourist Chief Renzo Gracie has threatened to choke French President Emmanuel Macron following his criticism of the Brazilian government’s response to the fires raging through the Amazon rainforest.
Schools in France will now by law have to fly the French flag in every classroom — along with the EU flag.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will miss a summit in Colombia on fires in the Amazon Rainforest for another surgery to fix damage caused by last year’s failed assassination attempt, his spokesperson confirmed on Monday.
(AFP) — President Hassan Rouhani spoke with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Saturday, warning him Iran would take the next step in reducing its nuclear commitments unless Europe lives up to its own undertakings.
President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil decried environmentalist panic over fires sprawling over the Amazon Rainforest on Tuesday, noting, “I would like there to be fewer fires, of course, but they are under the average of the past few years.”
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Representative Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) criticized President Trump’s push to readmit Russia into the G7 and stated that French President Emmanuel Macron did a better job defending America’s interests than Trump did. Gallego said, “This
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro suggested on Tuesday that his nation may still accept a $20 million donation organized by French President Emmanuel Macron for combating fires in the Amazon Rainforest, but only if the French leader “withdraws the insults he has hurled against me.”
The government of Brazil issued a stern rejection on Monday of attempts by French President Emmanuel Macron to involve Europe in the nation’s response to sprawling fires in the Amazon rain forest, scolding France to pay its share into the Paris Agreement on climate change and branding Macron a “colonialist.”
Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – Many high-profile figures seeking to denounce the fires in the Amazon — from Madonna and Cristiano Ronaldo to Leonardo DiCaprio and Emmanuel Macron — have unwittingly ended up misleading millions on social media, either sharing photographs of the region that are years old or images taken in other parts of the world.
The G7 nations have not reached a consensus about whether or not to invite Russia to next year’s summit meeting, according to a statement on Monday by French President Emmanuel Macron, host of this year’s event.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made a surprise appearance at the G7 summit in France on Sunday, a bit of collusion between the French and Iranian governments that appeared to be French President Emmanuel Macron’s gambit to jump-start diplomacy between Washington and Tehran.
Asked about the missed meeting, Trump replied to reporters, “I want clean air and clean water.”
President Donald Trump will participate in a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday as he wraps up the G7 Summit of world leaders.
BIARRITZ, France (AP) – A top Iranian official paid an unannounced visit Sunday to the G7 summit and headed straight to the buildings where leaders of the world’s major democracies have been debating how to handle the country’s nuclear ambitions.
BIARRITZ, France (AP) – The first fissures emerged among G7 leaders on Sunday over how to deal with Iran, as U.S. President Donald Trump denied he had signed on to an agreement on giving France a leading role as a go-between with the world’s major democracies.
(AFP) — U.S. President Donald Trump and EU leaders exchanged trade war threats Saturday as they arrived in France for a G7 summit of wealthy democracies overshadowed by trans-Atlantic tensions before it had even begun.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has urged French leader Emmanuel Macron to “keep [his] nose out” of his country’s affairs as fires continue to ravage the Amazon rainforest at alarming intensity.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was seen shaking his fists in victory Thursday evening as he returned to London from two days of talks in Europe, but top Brexiteers have warned him the insignificant changes he is trying to achieve to Theresa May’s disastrous withdrawal deal are not enough.
