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Before Trump meeting, Putin makes play for Europe
HELSINKI — The fanciest footwork in Moscow on Sunday was not on the World Cup pitch at Luzhniki Stadium but at the Kremlin — where Russian President Vladimir Putin made his play for rewriting relations...
View ArticleUproar in France as Macron refuses to break holiday for WWI ceremony
This isn’t going to help Jupiter’s image problem. The French commentariat and En Marche’s political opponents are furious at President Emmanuel Macron’s decision not to attend a ceremony to commemorate...
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Macron takes implicit dig at Trump, denouncing ‘nationalism’
PARIS — It was a day to remember the bloodshed that ultimately made European solidarity a political imperative, a matter of survival. Scores of presidents, prime ministers and other dignitaries from...
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Centenary of the WWI Armistice, in photos
French President Emmanuel Macron hosts world leaders, from U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, to celebrate the November 11, 1918...
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Macron’s Trump containment operation
PARIS — Donald Trump is no longer allowed to steal the show — at least not when it’s being held on Europe’s stage. At a G7 summit in Quebec last June, and a NATO leaders’ summit in Brussels a month...
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In the Yellow Jackets’ heartland
THURY-HARCOURT, France — While journalists were being assaulted by gilets jaunes protesters all over France, I was visiting the local Yellow Jackets on a roundabout next to the supermarket. They...
View ArticleBrigitte Macron to teach literature in tough Paris suburb
Brigitte Macron, France’s first lady, will teach literature to unemployed people in Clichy-Sous-Bois, a notorious banlieue east of Paris known as the starting point for the riots that erupted in 2005....
View ArticleBrazilian ambassador: Brigitte Macron ‘is very beautiful’
Brazil’s ambassador to France weighed in on the spat between the two countries’ leaders on Tuesday, by praising Brigitte Macron’s looks. Luís Fernando Serra said on French TV that France’s first lady...
View ArticleBrazil’s president might take G7 Amazon aid if Macron withdraws ‘insults’
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro backtracked on his earlier rejection of financial help from the G7 to fight fires in the Amazon rainforest — on the condition that Emmanuel Macron withdraws his...
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Inside Macron’s coronavirus war
Like other national leaders, French President Emmanuel Macron is fighting to save lives and prevent an economic depression. But he is also battling for the survival of his political vision | Thibaud...
View ArticleHow Fort de Brégançon can ruin a French president’s summer
Fort de Brégançon is beautiful, secluded and a perfect getaway from the hustle and bustle of Paris. It’s also been a pain in the derrière for French president after French president. It’s also old and...
View ArticleBrigitte Macron goes into coronavirus quarantine
France’s first lady Brigitte Macron will self-isolate for a week after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19. President Emmanuel Macron’s wife, 67, doesn’t have any...
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9 Trump moments Europeans loved to loathe
On election day, Donald Trump, Jr. tweeted out his “electoral map prediction” in which all of Europe was colored Republican red (apart from Croatia, which wasn’t colored in at all). But little Don’s...
View ArticleHow Biden puts Emmanuel Macron in a bind
PARIS — Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump didn’t see eye to eye on anything much. But in some ways, life was simpler for the French president before Joe Biden entered the White House. With Trump...
View Article4 ways to ruin French Christmas dinner
How do you spoil French Christmas? With Australian wine? British food? Or maybe just a good, old-fashioned argument. Any holiday that involves a family reunion brings its share of disagreements and...
View ArticleMelania Trump’s hat from Macron visit … yours for just $250K in crypto
Christmas may have gone but it’s not too late to get your hands (and head) on a lovely, if pricey, gift — an “iconic” hat that Melania Trump wore when the Macrons visited the White House. The former...
View ArticleMacron goes after online platforms, foreign ‘propaganda’ media
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron says online platforms and foreign “propaganda” media are the main drivers behind the spread of disinformation in the country — and he wants to rein them in....
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All the French president’s men (and one woman)
Illustrations by Antony Hare for POLITICO PARIS — Call them Emmanuel Macron’s praetorian guard. As the French president prepares to seek reelection in April, he has turned to a select group of close...
View ArticleLa nomination d’un proche du couple Macron à la tête du Mucem crée des remous
Le choix de Pierre-Olivier Costa, actuel directeur de cabinet de Brigitte Macron, pour prendre la direction du Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem), fait bruisser le petit...
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