
Macron’s Relaunch Press Conference Falls Flat
The French president has three-and-a-half years left at the helm, but there is already an end-of-reign atmosphere in the country.
The French president has three-and-a-half years left at the helm, but there is already an end-of-reign atmosphere in the country.
Nothing’s new in Macron’s world: lack of ideological consistency and mediocre political coups.
The president emphasised the need for a ten-year plan for palliative care instead of implementing euthanasia in the near future.
Critics say the appointment is unlikely to change the direction of the French President’s government.
The Washington Post article is just the latest in a long series of accusations made against the Rassemblement National over the past few months.
The French people voted in favour of a firmer immigration policy. When a semblance of a result is about to be achieved, their rulers set about destroying it.
Given the opposition to the bill in the French president’s own camp, sending it for constitutional review may be a way to reassure his ministers.
The new law includes annual immigration quotas, an end to automatic birthright citizenship, and withdrawal of residency permits for violating “principles of the Republic” but also leaves out requests of the Right.
The vote represents a rejection of President Macron’s impossible “at the same time” approach to the sensitive issue of immigration.
The main threat of disfigurement to Notre-Dame de Paris comes not from the French state, but from the initiatives of the diocese.