PARIS (AFP) – Former French prime minister Manuel Valls said Tuesday he wanted to be a candidate for newly elected president Emmanuel Macron’s centrist movement in next month’s legislative elections. The statement from Macron’s former boss — Macron was economy
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has ruled out sharing details of individuals on the intelligence services’ watch list with town mayors, he told weekly newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said that he is considering a ban on the foreign financing of mosques, and said that France needs a “new model” for its relationship with Islam.
France will never deny the “true, existing right” of Jewish historical ties to Jerusalem, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has pledged.
When French Prime Minister Manuel Valls arrived in Israel in May he came to promote bilateral ties, which were at the time tense in light of Israel’s objection to Paris’s initiative to hold a conference on the Middle East peace process.
RAMALLAH (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) (AFP) – Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah on Tuesday dismissed an Israeli proposal for direct negotiations instead of a French multilateral peace initiative, calling it an attempt to “buy time”.
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a multilateral French peace initiative as he met his French counterpart on Monday, offering instead to hold direct talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in Paris.
TEL AVIV (AFP) – French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was Sunday in Israel to advance his country’s plan to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts in the face of opposition from his counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu.
PARIS (AFP) – French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Wednesday described a UNESCO resolution on the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem as “clumsy” and “unfortunate” and said it should have been avoided.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls will visit Israel and the Palestinian territories this month in a bid to relaunch the peace process following the worst flare-up of violence in the Gaza Strip for two years, his office said Tuesday.
The French Prime Minister has said the majority of his countrymen consider Islam incompatible with the value of the Republic, before calling for universities to ban Islamic headscarfs. Manuel Valls—a Socialist known for his uncompromising rhetoric on terrorism, law and order—made the
MUNICH/BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – French Prime Minister Manuel Valls rejected on Saturday the idea of a permanent quota system for distributing refugees across Europe, putting Paris at odds with Germany ahead of a summit to discuss the EU crisis over migration.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s liberal refugee policy, which brought 1.1 million asylum seekers to Germany in 2015, is not sustainable in the long run, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls (above right) warned Friday. “This policy, which is justified temporarily, is
Jews are leaving France in record numbers citing fears of Islamic terrorism and rising anti-Semitism, according to a report by the Jewish Agency for Israel, leaving French politicians scrambling to provide assurances for those who choose to remain.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said that France would seek to keep its current state of emergency until a “total and global war” against the Islamic State was over. The emergency measures—including greater police presence, added transportation security, heightened electronic
All campaigns to boycott Israeli products have been condemned by French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who has accused activists of creating a “campaign of hatred” inside France. “I tell you here clearly: we condemn all campaigns of boycott against Israeli products,” he
France said EU sanctions against Russia could be lifted if Moscow fulfils its pledges to bring peace to Ukraine, hours after Kiev closed its airspace to its neighbour’s airlines and Russia said it would stop delivering gas. Speaking on the
TEL AVIV – ISIS jihadist and Paris massacre mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud planted multiple sleeper cells “with all kind of weapons” in order to carry out future attacks in “the countries of the infidels,” warns an ISIS communication.
French police raided homes of suspected Islamist militants across the country overnight in the aftermath of the Paris shootings, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Monday as he warned of potential further attacks. Valls said that since this summer,
