Keyword: yellowvests
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Plans for the 2024 Paris Olympics 100 years after Paris Olympics of 1924 involved an elaborate opening ceremony along the Seine River but now security concerns and fear of terrorism are putting those plans into question... This week National Rally leaders Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen in the National Assembly saying defeat for the government in the European Parliament elections on June 9th should lead to dissolution of the Assembly and new elections in France... This week the leader of France's main Leftist party (LFI) Jean-Luc Melenchon was banned from speaking in a room at the University of Lille......
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The tight band of security for the Paris Olympics includes major portions of the city center and areas around Olympic venues turning into special "Anti-Terrorist Zones"... This protest one by motorcyclists against government laws regarding motorcycles. Protests called across France today to oppose government requirements for inspection... But there was indeed a Yellow Vests protest today this long-form video shows today's demonstration...
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This week Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in a direct conversation with his French counterpart Sebastien Lecornu. Shoigu warning about any deployment of French troops in Ukraine leading to consequences... Violence against French school students became a big story with two attacks on teenagers. Earlier in the week in the southern city of Montpellier a 13-year-old girl (Samara) attacked outside her school by a gang of teens. The gang said to number 20 to 25... And then near Paris on Thursday the beating of a 15-year-old schoolboy. Several attackers beat him badly after he left a music class... This six-hour...
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President Emmanuel Macron's government raising the terrorism threat to its highest level last Sunday night in response to the Moscow terrorist attack. Officials in Moscow drawing links between the deadly Crocus City Hall attack and Ukraine and nations allied to Ukraine... Foreign soldiers coming to Paris this summer to provide security at the Summer Olympics that begin on July 26th. Poland announcing a military contingent... The head teacher of a school in Paris resigned his position fearing for his life... On Wednesday Prime Minister Gabriel Attal talking a controversial scheme to deal with a spiraling budget deficit. ' Attal appeared...
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"We feel like we have the reincarnation of Margaret Thatcher" Sophie Binet is general-secretary of France's CGT trade union. She was speaking about the policies of the Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire... Emmanuel Macron pivoted away from his belligerence towards Russia in Ukraine to dramatize the issue of gang-related crime in the city of Marseille. A police crackdown started the week followed by an apparent surprise visit to Marseille by Mr. Macron... On Tuesday night France's Defense Ministry denying what was said about French troop deployment in Ukraine. Russian foreign intelligence chief Sergey Naryshkin said France planned to send...
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French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal descending upon a prestigious political science school in Paris Wednesday announcing a referral to a public prosecutor. It stemmed from a Pro-Palestinian protest Tuesday involving 100 students occupying a lecture hall at the "Sciences Po". The protesters keeping others out. The outrage from government and mainstream media in particular surrounded a comment directed towards a Jewish student. "Don't let her in, she's a Zionist" President Emmanuel Macron saying those remarks were "unspeakable and perfectly intolerable"... "Assisted Death" The social issues push ahead of the European Parliament election on June 9th continues... On Thursday Mr. Macron...
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The Centrist Liberal Capitalist movement of President Emmanuel Macron trying to contain taxes and inflation for the moment. The Macron faction hoping to maintain a plurality of support from the French electorate in the upcoming June 7th European Parliament elections. Social issues emphasized to suck in voters further to the Left as the Right in France solidifies behind notions ranging from peace in Ukraine to limits on immigration and an end to disintegration of French culture and tradition... ...a unanimous vote in France's National Assembly this week for legislation to pay reparations to 10,000 gay people discriminated against by laws...
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Monday evening the leaders of 20 European nations gathered at the Elysee Palace in Paris (France's White House) for a conference on military support for Ukraine. There was agreement among many of those nations to send long-range weapons to Ukraine a disturbing sign of escalation in the conflict in and of itself. This was announced by President Emmanuel Macron at the end of the conference a 'ninth coalition of nations' to provide those long-range weapons for Ukraine. But what caused a splash inside France and around the world Macron's remarks... ..the French Foreign Minstry tried to 'clarify' the remarks. But...
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This week Prime Minister Gabirel Attal tried to draw Marine Le Pen into a debate on agricultural issues in the midst of the ongoing farmers protests... The Agriculture Show came to Paris Friday but so did protesting farmers staging an event with a convoy of tractors.... French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin moving quickly Thursday arresting Imam Mahjoub Mahjoubi and expelling him back to Tunisia... Today President Emanuel Macron trying to make a splash as the Agricultural Show in Paris saying he offers the way out of the grievances of the farmers caused by Free Market Global Capitalism undercutting the livelihoods...
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A tough stance on immigration and asylum seeking from France's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin. But not on the "Mainland" of France instead in the Indian Ocean on island of Mayotte... At a Tuesday night dinner with members of the National Assembly in the government faction, Prime Minister Gabirel Attal took aim at Marine Le Pen. Attal may run for President in 2027... On a week when the British and Japanese economies went into recession an admission that France's economy is stagnating further. France already had a pretty poor projection for economic growth in 2024 now Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire...
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Francois Bayrou and his "Democratic Movement" were an important "centrist" party in the parliamentary majority enjoyed by President Emmanuel Macron after Macron won his first term as President in 2017. This week, Mr. Bayrou, a former Education Minister, found his name in the news suggested as a new Defense Minister for France... Getting back to the political weakness of the Centrist government. Just days ago First Round polling for the 2027 Presidential Election Marine Le Pen at 36 percent. Current Prine Minister Gabirel Attal and Le Havre Mayor and former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe trailing when matched up against her......
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During the week the protest movement of French farmers that took root in the southwestern regions spread nationwide. The French farmers protest reflecting the frustration of farmers across the European Union. Rules and regulations limiting the use of land already in force and more related to climate in the pipeline. The movement of cheap agricultural goods across the borders of the EU nations and goods from beyond its borders an added element of frustration harming French farmers ability to get higher prices for their goods. Even now the European Union is fast-tracking a deal with the South American nations... By...
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Protest in France has tapered off since the Yellow Vests mass demonstrations in late 2018 and early 2019 but this week a spirited nationwide protest by farmers emerged. Larg conglomerates and global businesses the target of farmers anger since their policies threaten the ability of French farmers to make a living... French political leader Florian Philippot ("Les Patriots") saying that deal with the South American countries: "will kill our agriculture"... As the protests spread to highways in the Paris area Friday Prime Minister Gabirel Attal appearing at a cattle farm. He announced measures including the cancellation of a planned tax...
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When a Top 50 list of personalities in France came out at the end of last year 28-year-old Jordan Bardella was on it. Bardella is President of the National Rally it's number two personality behind Marine Le Pen who leads the party in the National Assembly. While Le Pen is expected to run for President in 2027 Bardella will take the lead position in this year's European Parliament elections for the RN. Polling done this weekend... The need for youthful leadership in President Emmanuel Macron's Centrist Liberal Capitalist movement to counter this leading to career advancement for 34-year-old Gabriel Attal...
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As we went into the weekend talk in France that President Emmanuel Macron was ready to shake up his government. Talk that Macron might ditch his current Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne. Today in French media the discussion about who might be the new Prime Minister. Former National Assembly President Richard Ferrand taking his name out of consideration. Meanwhile polling data points to the political strength of Marine Le Pen who leads the National Rally in France's National Assembly. Which politician is most 'in touch' with the everyday concerns of the average person in France?... The protest in Paris a small...
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60 personalities in the entertainment industry coming out in support of legendary actor Gerard Depardieu. Depardieu dealing with a rape case in the criminal justice system and other accusations leveled in a recent TV documentary... 2,500 signatories on a manifesto this weekend condemning Depardieu and denouncing a 'law of silence'... On Christmas Day the plane with alleged ties to human trafficking was allowed to leave France... For New Year's Eve in France a mobilization of 90,000 police including 6,000 in Paris... Many protesters today with their Yellow Vests others not wearing vests. A yellow flag used in the protest today....
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When the immigration law deal was cut last Tuesday Marine Le Pen proclaimed an: "ideological victory" After the vote President Emmanuel Macron claimed the new law was a way to stop the National Rally from gaining strength politically. Many of the left-leaning members of his grand Centrist alliance dismayed... Macron will not run in the 2027 Presidential Election. For now, as his movement considers possible candidates in a race where Marine Le Pen personally looks strong and ideas of the Right gain popularity Mr. Macron continues to irk the left... Now Macron has weighed in on the rape and sexual...
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The delicate balance of President Emmanuel Macron's "Centrist" government maintaining power without a majority in the National Assembly was upset Monday. The vote 270-265 against the government with 13 abstentions. The modified legislation on immigration from the Senate shot down on a motion brought by France's Left upset over the strictness of the proposed law... Cultural conflict involving a French school led to a teacher walkout. The story not clearly state by Mainstream Media but it began with Muslim students aged 11 and 12 averting their eyes from a classic painting of naked women... Today's protest event seen here is...
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"With each attack, it's always the same questions, always a known perpetrator, spotted, monitored but nothing is done" "Terrorism is not looked in the face but ignored" Marine Le Pen commenting on last Saturday night's terrorist attack in Paris... French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne interviewed by "Le Figaro" saying: "I don't believe in the normalization of the National Rally" Borne contending that the RN leader in the National Assembly Marine Le Pen has not repudiated the beliefs of her father Jean Marie Le Pen... And the reason for Borne to link the daughter Le Pen with the father Le Pen...
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The death of Thomas, a 16-year-old stabbed after a dance party in southeastern France on November 19th triggered protests with the "Far-Right" blamed by the government. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin saying the government is seeking to ban small "Far-Right" organizations following those protests... The government of President Emmanuel Macron casting a wider net amid the controversy with a direct attack on the National Rally in France's National Assembly. Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti accusing the RN of seeking to divide France between its Catholic rural parts and urban Muslim parts. He claimed the RN needs to expel Racists and Nazis in...
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