The laureate, French author Annie Ernaux, is known for her long-standing commitment to the Left, perhaps more than for her literary output.
The French president considers these cases a challenge to his political authority, and he has no intention of yielding. For the moment, there is no official reaction to either affair by the Élysée.
The North Korean army launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile, which flew over Japan. South Korea and the United States responded on the same day with precision strike drills and several missiles launched into the sea.
The chairman of the French National Assembly’s law commission explained in an interview that Parliament’s freedom to legislate on ethical matters must be “absolute,” meaning that parliamentarians must not feel bound by public disapproval of euthanasia.
Austria, Hungary, and Serbia are determined to make up for the European Union’s deficiencies in regulating migratory flows.
The legislative and executive powers are now engaged in a form of institutional one-upmanship. Emmanuel Macron, threatened by a motion of censure, answered with another threat: the dissolution of the National Assembly.
Anxiety has been heightened because these cables are mostly owned by private companies and they pass through areas that are accessible to all, making them very vulnerable.
The fight against jihadism is the priority for the new master of Burkina Faso. The country has lost control of 40% of its territory to armed jihadist groups, and Damiba has clearly failed to put an end to this unrest.
The French believe a union of the Rights is highly unlikely in the French political landscape, and perhaps more significantly, they consider coalitions undesirable.
Meloni distinguished herself from her two allies in the centre-right coalition, Matteo Salvini’s Lega and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia, who were much more cautious on the subject, by virtue of their relatively good relations with Vladimir Putin in the past.
For the Italians, there is no ‘fascism’ attached to Giorgia Meloni. Her coalition is centre-right, full stop. On the other side of the Alps, the repeated use of the word ‘fascist’ dispenses with any nuanced analysis; few articles actually look at Meloni’s programme.
Those who are contemptuous of Christian civilisation continue their assault on our spiritual heritage. Defending it is becoming increasingly difficult to justify to those for whom erasing its traces from the public sphere has become a point of honour.
