This Is Beirut, 24/06 23:48 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
French President Emmanuel Macron and King Abdullah II of Jordan on Monday stressed the need to support efforts to restore calm to the border between Lebanon and Israel, and to bolster stability in the Land of the Cedars. Over lunch at the Élysée Palace, they warned against a "conflagration that would be catastrophic for the region" if the ...
This Is Beirut, 24/06 22:02 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
President Emmanuel Macron on Monday warned that the policies of his far-right and hard-left opponents could lead to "civil war" as France prepared for its most divisive election in decades. French politics were plunged into turmoil by Macron calling snap legislative elections after his centrist party was trounced by the far-right National Rally ...
This Is Beirut, 23/06 22:48 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Amid promises of "change," Emmanuel Macron and his team assured on Sunday that governance will be more collaborative in case of victory, while the New Popular Front is mired in leadership battles for the prime minister's seat. Despite his camp struggling in the polls, Macron vowed to "act until May 2027," countering suggestions from some ...
This Is Beirut, 17/06 23:19 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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European Union leaders huddled in Brussels on Monday to thrash out how to divide up the bloc's top jobs, with early signals putting Ursula von der Leyen on track for a second term as chief of the powerful European Commission. Far-right gains in EU-wide elections in early June, which triggered snap polls and political upheaval in France, appear to ...
This Is Beirut, 17/06 21:46 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
France began a frantically short election campaign Monday, with President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance facing an uphill struggle to avoid a new defeat at the hands of the far right. Macron called the snap parliamentary elections three years early in a dramatic gamble to shake up politics in France, after the far right trounced his ...
This Is Beirut, 16/06 22:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
On Sunday, France was bracing for a frenetic fortnight of election campaigning for snap polls called by President Emmanuel Macron to combat the far right, as star footballer Kylian Mbappé waded into the febrile environment with a warning not to vote for extremes. Candidates had until 4 PM GMT to register for the 577 seats in the lower house ...
This Is Beirut, 14/06 17:03 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant rejected on Friday the initiative presented by French President Emmanuel Macron in which France, along with the US and Israel, formed a contact group to work on defusing tensions on the southern Lebanese border. “While we are fighting a just war in defense of our people, France adopts anti-Israeli ...
Rami Rayess, 14/06 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Since the announcement of the European parliamentary election results, there has been a surge of political and non-political analyses to understand their anticipated impact on the "old" continent and their implications for the future European trajectory. These concerns were amplified by the swift and surprising move by French President Emmanuel ...
This Is Beirut, 12/06 13:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
French President Emmanuel Macron called Wednesday for backing from people "able to say no to extremes" in snap elections he called after a European poll battering. "I hope that when the time comes, men and women of goodwill who have been able to say no to the extremes will come together... will put themselves in a position to build a shared, ...
12/06 09:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Following President Macron’s abrupt dissolution of the National Assembly, the French Left has rallied together. Their goal: to thwart the far-right’s surge in the wake of the National Rally’s significant success in the European elections, a success that could be further strengthened by allying with certain Republicans. Shortly after the ...
This Is Beirut, 11/06 16:22 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The leader of France's right-wing Republicans (LR) on Tuesday backed an alliance in snap legislative elections with the far-right National Rally (RN) of Marine Le Pen. "We need to have an alliance while remaining ourselves — an alliance with the RN and its candidates," Eric Ciotti told TF1 television, setting out a position set to be hugely ...
Ali A. Hamadé, 10/06 21:43 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Following President Emmanuel Macron's announcement of the dissolution of the National Assembly on Sunday evening and the scheduling of the two-round legislative elections on June 30th and July 7th, France is bracing for a period of deep political uncertainty. His move follows the European elections, marked by a landslide victory for Marine Le ...