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In the 1980s and 90s when Hubert Védrine served as a foreign policy advisor to France's President François Mitterrand, and later as Foreign Affairs minister from 1997 to 2002, the world was going through tumultuous times. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the apparent end of the Cold War upended the post-WWII geopolitical order and caused a fundamental reset in global relations. As a leading diplomat Védrine was part of international efforts to chart a course through the chaos and gained a profound insight into the challenges entailed in the quest for peace and stability around the world; i...
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Yaël Braun-Pivet of Macron's centrist party is reelected as the new President of the National Assembly with 220 votes against André Chassaigne who obtained 207 votes. Braun-Pivet, 53, has been the speaker of the National Assembly since 2022 and she retained her post Thursday after three rounds of votes in the lower house of parliament. She received the support of Macron’s centrist allies and of some conservative lawmakers seeking to prevent her leftist contender, a communist lawmaker, from getting the job. Braun-Pivet is the first woman to hold this position. She previously served as Minister ...
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After months of anticipation, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo finally dipped in the Seine River on Wednesday, nine days before the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games. Clad in a wetsuit, Hidalgo plunged into the river near the imposing-looking City Hall, her office, and the Notre Dame Cathedral. Paris 2024 chief Tony Estanguet joined her. They followed in the footsteps of French Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, who swam in the Seine on Saturday wearing a full-body suit. It's part of a broader effort to showcase the river's improved cleanliness ahead of the summer games, which will kick of...
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French start-ups are relieved following the results of a snap legislative election called by president Emmanuel Macron last month but remain wary about how the political shake-up will impact the striving sector. The results from the second round on Sunday surprised and contradicted opinion polls with the left-wing coalition Nouveau Front Populaire, or New Popular Front (NFP), gaining the most seats in parliament. Macron’s Ensemble coalition came in second place, followed by Marine Le Pen’s far-right Rassemblement National, or National Rally (RN). As neither of the three parties won a majority,...
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Contrary to what the polls predicted, the left-wing coalition New Popular Front (NFP) came out on top during Sunday's legislative election in France, followed by President Macron’s centrist alliance. The far-right National Rally came in third place, a surprising defeat considering the party’s historic scores in the first round of the legislative elections on June 30 and in the EU elections on June 9. With 181 seats for the left, against 159 for the presidential majority and 143 for the National Rally, the country's parliament is now divided into three distinct blocs. With none of the alliances...
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France’s left/green alliance the New Popular Front (NFP) emerged as the dominant force in Sunday’s election, thwarting Marine Le Pen’s push to put the far right in power. It came as a shock after weeks of opinion polls had predicted National Rally (RN) a comfortable victory. With the left winning 182 seats, Macron’s centrist alliance 168 and Le Pen’s RN 143, no single group has secured a working majority, Interior Ministry data cited by Le Monde newspaper showed. Green Party leader Marine Tondelier has been one of the stand-out voices in the left-wing election campaign. The party is one of the...
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Voting has begun in France in pivotal runoff elections that could hand an historic victory to Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally - or produce a hung parliament and potentially months of political deadlock. The first round of voting on June 30th saw the largest gains ever for the National Rally. The result of Sunday’s vote will ultimately determine which party controls the National Assembly and who will be prime minister. If support is further eroded for Macron’s weak centrist majority, he will be forced to share power with parties opposed to most of his pro-business, pro-European Union p...
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Thousands gathered on Wednesday in Paris to protest the results of the first round of the French legislative elections after the far-right National Rally party secured the most votes. Multiple unions, independent media and citizens' organisations were behind the demonstration calling on voters to block the rise of the far right for the second round of the elections scheduled for Sunday. Many present fear a far-right victory could curtail civil liberties due to the National Rally’s history of xenophobia and antisemitism. "If tomorrow the far right wins, I don't know what will become of my fello...
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European far-right parties have used artificial intelligence (AI)-generated images to support political messaging, two new reports have found, but it is difficult to assess how those images may have impacted the recent French and European elections. Non-profit organisation AI Forensics went through the social media pages of 31 French political parties to determine whether they could spot generative AI (genAI) content from May 1 to June 28, during the EU elections and the first round of France’s legislative campaign. They then put those images through AI-related search engines to verify that an...
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With only a couple of days to go before the second round of the French parliamentary elections scheduled for 7 July, the National Rally’s opponents are scrambling to keep the far-right from obtaining an absolute majority in the National Assembly. To do this, the left-wing coalition known as the New Popular Front (NFP) said it would withdraw its candidates in districts where they finished third to support other stronger candidates opposed to the National Rally (RN). This tactic, known as the Front Républicain (the Republican Front), worked in the past when the far right was considered a politic...
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