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Stephen Bannon, who helped Trump overcome the odds and claim a resounding victory, has reached out to the French Far right family’s youngest member. He told French media he believed "France is the place to be, with its young entrepreneurs, women of the family Le Pen” adding that “Marion Maréchal-Le Pen is the new rising star”. Marion has since expressed her support for the political campaigner and agreed to work with him in the future.

HÉNIN-BEAUMONT, France — It was a moment of intense French patriotism on a sunny Friday, Armistice Day. A band blared “La Marseillaise,” the national anthem. Shouts of “Vive la France!” filled the chilly November air. And there, too, was Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front party, beaming. Before Donald J. Trump’s presidential victory in the United States this week, Ms. Le Pen was considered a disruptive political force but far from a true threat to become president herself when France votes next spring. Not anymore. Since Wednesday, French news outlets, along with Ms. Le Pen’s mainstream political...

Meet the floating piece of France, projecting the country's military power around the world. The French carrier the Charles De Gaulle is currently in the eastern Mediterranean supporting operations against the so-called Islamic State. Her 24 Rafale fighter jets are flying sorties day and night over Iraq and Syria in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. For the past 15 years, De Gaulle has been involved in nearly every major international conflict, from Afghanistan and Libya, to the current war on Islamic State. With a crew of 2,000, this is the only nuclear powered carrier outside the US Navy. The De...

France has a large number of legal firearms and firearm owners.  That number is growing, as explained in an English language French publication. From thelocal.fr: As a result there has a been a surge in the number of people joining gun clubs and looking to arm themselves. An investigation by the Nouvel Observateur website found that the number of people signing up to become licensed members at shooting clubs has risen 38 percent in five years. And in the past year alone there has been a 10 percent increase, believed to be down to the spate of terror attacks...

An official migrant center in Paris will welcome its first occupants on Thursday, just a week after French police cleared thousands of refugees off the streets of the capital. After two and half months of building, the official “humanitarian” Paris migrant camp and reception center will open its doors on Thursday. The new camp is located in a disused hangar, near Porte de la Chapelle, to the north of the city near Gare du Nord. […] “We are not naïve. This center will not solve everything,” said Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo. “But we finally have a worthy and humane alternative...

A Paris suicide bomber who was carrying a Syrian passport passed through Greece as a refugee in October, according to a Greek minister. The passport was retrieved from one of the suicide bombers who blew himself up outside the Stade de France stadium as part of last night's coordinated attacks, which killed at least 127 people. The passport holder, who is understood to be 25, passed through the island of Leros of October 3 as a refugee, where he was identified ‘according to EU rules’. But Greece’s deputy minister in charge of police, Nikos Toscas, did not know if the...

France’s Foreign Minister said Wednesday Europe must not flinch in protecting European interests from President-elect Donald Trump. “We have to meet the challenge for a Europe that must be able to better defend its citizens and its interests,” French Foreign Minsiter Jean-Marc Ayrault told French media. Ayrault called Trump’s statements on foreign policy “confused” and shocking to traditional U.S. allies.

France may be hit by power shortages this winter, with almost one third of the country’s nuclear power plants out of action. It might be time to bring out the extra blankets at home. Grid operator RTE warned on Tuesday that it would have to take “exceptional measures” to keep the French warm this winter due to the fact that 20 of the country’s 58 nuclear power plants have been temporarily disconnected for safety checkups. These measures may include “short power cuts in certain areas of the country in order to continue providing electricity to homes during the winter period”,...

Marine Le Pen, the far-Right leader of the Front National, “can win” France’s presidency next year, the country’s shell-shocked mainstream Right predicted on Wednesday, amid warnings that Donald Trump’s surprise triumph has thrown all political certainty into doubt. The tumultuous result came as Ms Le Pen described the outcome as “good news for our country”. Current polls suggest that the FN leader will come top in next spring’s first round of presidential elections in France only to be comfortably beaten by a mainstream Right candidate, whoever that may be following party primaries held later this month.

Marine Le Pen, who is running for president next spring, has long said Trump’s politics were in French interests, congratulated the “free” American people. Viktor Orbán, the hardline nationalist leader of Hungary, said Trump’s victory was great news. “Democracy is still alive,” read a post on his Facebook page. Frauke Petry, the lead of Germany’s rightwing populist Alternative für Deutschland, said the result was “encouraging” as could herald a political sea-change in Europe too. He said: “It was high time that in the United States of America, people who feel disaffected withdrew their vote for the political establishment. Whilst 93%...

Gerard Araud, who is the serving [French] ambassador [to the US], tweeting his astonishing remarks as forecasters predict the Republican billionaire will defeat Hillary Clinton. The 63-year-old said: "After Brexit and this election, everything is now possible. A world is collapsing before our eyes. Dizziness." (Après Brexit et cette élection, tout est désormais possible. Un monde s'effondre devant nos yeux. Un vertige.)

MARINE Le Pen, the leader of the far-right French party Front National, has congratulated Donald Trump on Twitter as he looked set to win the US election in a shock victory... “Congratulations to the new president of the USA Donald Trump and to the free people of America!” Ms Le Pen’s tweet was retweeted and liked thousands of times with her followers calling for a 2017 French election victory for the Front National... Ms Le Pen's father, Jean-Marie Le Pen called Mr Trump the “President of the People” and said on Twitter: "Today the USA, tomorrow France."

President François Hollande, who has criticized Donald Trump in the past, said on Tuesday that US presidential vote was in capable hands. On the eve of the US election, President Hollande made it clear that he is confident that Americans will make the right choice. “I have faith in the American people to know which choice corresponds the best to the values, the principles, the liberty, and to Americans’ relation with France, and with Europe,” he told reporters while in La Rochelle in western France. …

France has a deep and abiding relationship with nuclear technology. French policy-makers have based France’s energy and military independence around nuclear programs. However, as the French government attempts to justify its budget policies in the lead-up to the presidential election in April 2017, calls for a public debate on the cost of military nuclear deterrence are increasing. This debate encompasses three main questions. Should France still base its global defence strategy on nuclear deterrence? If yes, how should nuclear deterrence be conducted? Finally, how should the state efficiently budget for this strategic investment? Questions about the future of the nuclear...

Snip: The real reason that left-wing Democrats, which is about all there are anymore, are so in favor of open borders is this. The Democrat Party politically, for its enduring power and thus survival, needs a permanent underclass of people dependent on government. And the fastest way to get them is to bring them here from poor nations when they're young, when they're uneducated and unskilled and can't work and thus they arrive totally dependent. And if this happens with a Democrat in the White House, they are going to grow very accustomed to the government of the United States...

“This isn’t so much a harvest, as a hunt for grapes,” said French winemaker Jean-Jacques Robert, with a rueful laugh as he unloaded grapes still warm from his vineyards around Fuisse in Burgundy. “It’s a catastrophe, the worst harvest for 30 or 40 years,” said the normally cheery 64-year-old owner of Domaine Robert-Denogent. The organic winemaker lost between two-thirds and three-quarters of his harvest in one hailstorm in April. He is not alone. For thousands of French winemakers, 2016 will go down as an annus horribilis, with vines destroyed by frost, heavy rain, hailstones “as big as ping pong balls”,...

I saw the form of The Lord step into our presence and walk among us and a great Peace filled the room then I heard this . . .   The Shulamite(peaceful) Bride is in the Garden and I smell her "Aroma of Delight" and "this is worship" .  I shall reveal the answers to dilemas,the truth(clarity) where there has been revelations,visions and dreams yes,but in this truth shall come My strategy for your breakthroughs.   Song of Solomon 6:2-4Amplified Bible  (The Shulammite Bride) 2  “My beloved has gone down to his garden, To the beds of balsam, To feed his...

For many people, the automotive sector is a determinant of a country’s economic power. If you do not produce car brands that are known worldwide, then you mean nothing. France, once a global leader in car manufacturing, may soon fall out from the elite, as its contribution to the world’s automotive market is dramatically decreasing. It is one of the many signs how weak French economy has become with the euro adoption. A dying industry can be a spark that will set on fire the whole country; or the European Union. Industry is one of economy’s pillars and it has...

France’s government last week announced the creation of a highly controversial new database that will collect and store personal information on nearly everyone living in the country who holds a French identity card or passport. The massive database, known as Secure Electronic Documents (Titres électroniques sécurisés or TES), was decreed by the government on October 30 in an effort to crack down on identity theft. The move sparked immediate outrage in the French media, with weekly magazine L’Observateur describing it as “terrifying”, and daily newspaper Libération calling it a “mega database that will do no good”. The TES will affect...

Recent shocking terror attacks in France have encouraged many to try to get hold of their own firearms, new figures reveal. A spate of shocking terror attacks on French soil in recent years has left many in France fearful. As a result, there has a been a surge in the number of people joining gun clubs and looking to arm themselves. An investigation by the Nouvel Observateur website found that the number of people signing up to become licensed members at shooting clubs has risen 38 percent in five years. […] Having a gun no longer seems to be a...