French President Emmanuel Macron will address the nation on Thursday after opposition lawmakers ousted the minority government, deepening the country’s political crisis, the Elysee said. FRANCE 24’s Sharon Gaffney speaks to Rainbow Murray, politics lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London. She says that Marine Le Pen is taking a huge gamble by placing the … Read more
Thousands of pro-EU protesters rallied Wednesday in Georgia for a seventh consecutive night, after police raided opposition party offices and made arrests, following the prime minister’s threat to punish opponents. Tbilisi has been rocked by turmoil since the ruling Georgian Dream party claimed victory in an October 26 parliamentary election denounced by opposition groups as … Read more
France’s parliament voted to oust the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier in a no-confidence vote Wednesday. Barnier’s removal after three months in office means President Emmanuel Macron must choose a successor, as no new elections can be called within a year of last summer’s snap polls. Macron’s office announced that he will address the … Read more
FRANCE 24 journalist Clovis Casali, reporting from the lower house National Assembly, said the decision by MPs to oust French Prime Minister Michel Barnier was a “forgone conclusion”. “His speech was very much a goodbye speech, stressing what he had achieved,” Casali remarked. Source link
UNESCO on Wednesday added the zinc roof restoration and ornamentalists techniques used on Parisian buildings to its Intangible World Heritage list. Building upon their craft dating from the 19th century, these craftsmen are adapting their trade to deal with climate change and hope that the newfound status will attract more young people to the trade. … Read more
For Michel Barnier, negotiating with the Tories will have seemed a breeze compared with his short stint as French prime minister. The EU’s former Brexit negotiator is on the cusp of watching its minority government fall to the hands of parliament, a first in this country since 1962. Source link
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz faced a question-and-answer session lasting about an hour in the Bundestag parliament on Wednesday, just weeks before he’s expected to call a vote of confidence in his minority government to pave the way towards snap elections. He appealed to opposition politicians to consider supporting last pieces of legislation his outgoing government … Read more
Romania’s top security council on Wednesday declassified documents describing Russia’s alleged involvement in the first round of its presidential elections. One of the documents details how Calin Georgescu, the leading pro-Russian outsider candidate, was massively promoted on social media platform TikTok through coordinated accounts and paid promotion. Source link
In today’s Science segment, we tell you about the latest cases of the bird-flu detected in North America. Three people were diagnosed without experts being able to identify the source of contamination. First a teenager in Canada then a child in California which follows a first contamination in Missouri. None of those patients have been … Read more
FRANCE 24 spoke to Hicham El Alaoui, King of Morocco Mohammed VI’s cousin and lecturer at the University of Berkeley in California. He is the author of “Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective”, a comparative study of two countries during the Arab Spring. Turning to the war led by … Read more