During October and November the 🇫🇷 army is training 2,300 🇺🇦 soldiers in eastern France, part of the 🇺🇦 155th brigade. On completion 🇫🇷 will transfer to 🇺🇦 full associated equipment for the brigade, including 128 armoured vehicles, 18 CAESAR howitzers +18 AMX-10 RC. Macron visits today Source: Elysée
Anything less than yes means no. Five weeks in, what the harrowing rape trial of Dominique Pelicot and his 50 co-accused says about consent in French rape law, and the remarkable courage of one woman, the victim, Gisèle Pelicot www.economist.com/europe/2024/...
Europe is a continent of coalition governments, painful to forge and fragile to maintain. France, with its new team of Macron loyalists and Barnier right-wingers, is having to learn this afresh. Can Barnier bring stability to 🇫🇷? www.economist.com/europe/2024/... from The Economist
Not sure anyone saw this coming. Michel Barnier, who has been French prime minister for 14 days and has not yet formed a government, is now the country’s most popular politician ⬇️ Source: Ifop
Nearly 8 weeks after the final legislative vote, France still has no new government. This damaging hiatus reflects a chronic failure to treat political compromise as anything other than weakness and capitulation. All the parties are to blame In The Economist www.economist.com/europe/2024/...
Ahead of European elections, France has uncovered a vast Russian disinformation campaign, targeting mainly 🇫🇷🇩🇪and 🇵🇱, based on a network of 193 websites which it codenames “Portal Kombat” www.economist.com/europe/2024/...
“Portal Kombat” also targets Germany and Poland
“The risk for Gabriel Attal, who enjoys far better poll ratings than his boss, is that he has been over-promoted. The risk for Macron is that his protégé outshines him.” Weekend profile: Gabriel Attal, France’s new prime minister espresso.economist.com/453129ee88ee... from The Economist
If Gabriel Attal’s precocious political ascent feels familiar to the French, then that echo is the
This was pretty impressive. The French air force, for the first time, joined its Jordanian counterpart to air-drop seven tonnes of humanitarian medical aid into southern Gaza, for the Jordanian field hospital there
Europe is struggling to make its diplomacy matter over Israel and Gaza. The agony of inaudibility is particularly painful for France www.economist.com/europe/2024/... from The Economist
Call it the agony of inaudibility