French President Emmanuel Macron was keen to display a smiling optimism by answering questions in English to international journalists in Versailles; a few minutes later, he was grave and serious in his address to French journalists, commenting in exactly the opposite terms.
Beware of those who would betray the proud Gascon. Obviously, Joe Wright, the American director who embarked on the highly questionable adventure of adapting Cyrano to the wokish style, must not have been aware of the risks involved.
The new president arrived at Parliament accompanied by her husband and three children. Refuting the ‘codes’ of militant feminism, Novák highlighted her identity as a woman and mother as decisive assets in politics.
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict is resurrecting other clashes over territorial sovereignty elsewhere in the world. Japan is taking advantage of the Ukrainian opportunity to make its claim to the Kuril Islands archipelago heard again, which it has disputed with Russia for more than 70 years. The Kuril Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands located between […]
The European Union is not NATO, but Ukraine joining the Union, while undoubtedly symbolically effective, could further aggravate tensions between Russia and the rest of the European continent.
An outburst of criticism accompanied this last-minute candidacy. For several weeks Emmanuel Macron has been accused of taking advantage of the pandemic, and of the war, to dodge debates about his time in office, now coming to an end.
The Latin Rite Catholic bishops petitioned Pope Francis on Ash Wednesday, in which they explicitly asked him to consecrate Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Today in France, taking a sovereignist line is unfortunately understood as Putinolatry, and it is extremely difficult to hear a balanced point of view on what the positioning of a strong France in the international game should be.
Never before has the approval of presidential candidates generated such tension: the deadline for the deposit of sponsorships was set for March 4th, so validation really came at the last minute for major candidates who were nevertheless guaranteed to gather at least 10% of the vote.
The report issued by the European Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights shows a growing distinction between Western European countries and the countries of the former communist bloc.
Since the beginning of the conflict, the treatment of news on Russia Today television network has differed significantly from other media. Several European countries have already taken measures against the channel.
The patronymic is primarily a symbol of continuity and transmission. With this new law, the idea of transmission of a symbolic heritage, that of the name, leaves the realm of designation to become the object of a choice subject to personal convenience.
