Elisabeth Borne seemed to willingly partake in the delicate exercise of navigating among oppositional factions, despite the electric atmosphere in the Palais Bourbon.
The attractiveness of the Commonwealth is a reflection of the deficiencies in French policy, which for several years has been unable to maintain constructive relations with its former colonies, both culturally and economically.
OPEC’s Secretary General, without executive power in the strict sense, usually plays a decisive diplomatic role in facilitating discussions between producer countries with often divergent interests.
Some political opponents of the Polish prime minister did not see this granting of EU funds as good news; indeed, they consider that it places the country in a dangerous dependency.
No leading personality stands out in the rather dull team that Emmanuel Macron has in place. Competent perhaps to manage current affairs—not so much to direct an ambitious political course.
The trial opened with a striking statement by the ‘mastermind’ Salah Abdeslam. “First of all, I would like to say that there is no God but Allah and Mohamed is his servant.” By explicitly declaring the religious dimension of his act, he embarrassed the judges and the media who, despite the horror of the attacks, still struggle to accept the notion of Islamist terrorism.
President Saied is drawing the outlines of the beginning of secularism in Tunisia, unusual in Islamic lands where temporal power and spiritual power tend to merge.
Huge concessions from Sweden and Finland finally allowed Turkey to lift its veto against the entry of the two Nordic countries in the Atlantic Alliance.
The result of the vote on 23 June 2022 confirms the prevailing consensus among MEPs on the need to maintain control over public freedoms in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
While there is now a general consensus among French politicians to maintain the right to abortion, there is no guarantee that it will be enshrined in the Constitution.
At the end of the discussion, Emmanuel Macron managed to extract from Vladimir Putin the principle of an international meeting. A few days later, the conflict broke out. The international meeting would never take place.
Never before has the national Right achieved such a result in France, to the point of surpassing the governmental Right. New perspectives are opening up for the party founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen.
