Tag: President Macron

Emmanuel Macron has warned that the EU "could die" as he issued a dire warning about the bloc's economy, saying Brussels is "over-regulating and under-investing".

France has been so distracted by keeping out the "far Right" that it failed to see it was letting in a far Left that poses a real threat to the French economy and the survival of the eurozone, says Matthew Lynn.

Here's something the BBC won't tell you: Marine Le Pen's National Rally was the only party to increase its vote share in the second round of the French election, says Nick Rendell.

Le Pen's National Rally won the popular vote in the French election with 37% – higher than the 34% that gave Keir Starmer his UK landslide. But the party came third thanks to being shunned by the Right-wing Republicans.

President Macron has urged the EU to press pause on its headlong rush towards Net Zero, pointing out the damage it risks doing to the European economy. Does this leave pro-Net Zero Rishi Sunak increasingly isolated?

Opposition MPs defeated a proposal by Emmanuel Macron's Government to extend vaccine passports for travellers entering France, raising major doubts over the President’s ability to pass new laws.

Rules requiring people to show a vaccine passport to access venues and to wear a face mask indoors will be lifted in France on March 14th, French PM Jean Castex has said, just in time for the election.

Under France's vaccine passport, the vaccine is being treated as a mystical state that incorporates people into the collective body. Vaccination now is like a sacrament; through the vaccine we are joining the community.

Macron wants to "piss off" the unvaccinated because they place a burden on the health service. But obese people place a burden on the health service too. Will Macron's next policy be "pissing off" the obese?

French President Emmanuel Macron has said he wants to "piss off" the unvaccinated by banning them from public venues such as restaurants, cafes and cinemas.