Protests erupted across France on March 17 after French President Emmanuel Macron’s government invoked a special constitutional power allowing him to push through controversial pension reforms that raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. Thousands of people gathered in the capital Paris after French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced the use of Article 49.3—which allows the government to…

Britain will pay France nearly half a billion pounds over the next three years to step up efforts to prevent illegal immigrants from crossing the English Channel in small boats, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced. Following a summit with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Friday, Sunak said the…

Commentary When a million people protest on the streets of Paris and most major French cities, you know there is a serious problem in French society. The protests, which had been going on for four days, culminated on Feb. 11 in Paris, where reportedly half a million people participated. The vitriol directed at the president…

The UK government has said it is “not practical” to send British fighter jets to Ukraine, though it insists the UK will “accelerate” its support to bolster Kyiv’s fight against Russia. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s official spokesman said on Tuesday: “The UK’s Typhoon and F35 fighter jets are extremely sophisticated and take months to learn…

Kyiv has decried a French proposal to provide Russia with “security guarantees” aimed at addressing the latter’s longstanding concerns over further eastward expansion by the NATO alliance. According to Ukrainian officials, Moscow—not NATO—should provide security guarantees. “[The] civilized world needs ‘security guarantees’ from [the] barbaric intentions of post-Putin Russia,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian…

French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that some of President Joe Biden’s domestic policies could “fragment the West” after he arrived in Washington for the first state dinner of the Biden administration. “There is a risk today that we must discuss among friends,” Macron told reporters at the French Embassy in Washington. “The risk is…

French President Emmanuel Macron says that some of President Joe Biden’s domestic policies could “fragment the West,” after he arrived in Washington for the first state dinner of the Biden administration. “There is a risk today that we must discuss among friends,” Macron told reporters on Dec. 1 at the French Embassy in Washington. “The risk…

Commentary As we know, the reaction of many Western leaders to new Italian (and first female) Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s victory in the recent national elections varied from the downright deranged to the cold and aloof. The Prime Minister of France, Elisabeth Borne, promised to keep a close eye on Meloni to ensure she respected…

Commentary The Paris city council, on the encouragement of the government of Emmanuel Macron, has made the shocking decision to turn off the lights to the Eiffel Tower at 11:45pm and leaving them off all night, thus robbing the whole city of its most iconic and beautiful symbol of peace, prosperity, and industrial civilization. The…

French President Emmanuel Macron said that President Joe Biden’s statement that the world is inching closer to nuclear “armageddon” isn’t responsible. “We must speak with prudence when commenting on such matters,” the French leader said, adding, “I have always refused to engage in political fiction, and especially … when speaking of nuclear weapons.” “On this issue,…