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Meeting in Paris, the Defence Ministers of France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom affirmed on Monday that Europe should take more responsibility for its own security, while judging the United States as "necessary" to the Alliance.
French astronaut Sophie Adenot told Cologne, Germany, on Saturday that she had passed through "all human emotions" during her eight months in space, an experience that was so physically challenging since her return to Earth, she said during her first public appearance.
French astronaut Sophie Adenot went through "all human emotions, from the most joyful to the most difficult" during her eight months in space, she said during her first public appearance on land on Saturday in Cologne, Germany.
The United States invited national security advisers from France, Germany and the United Kingdom, as well as representatives of the European Union and NATO, to join discussions with Ukraine in Miami, Florida.
The United States invited national security advisers from France, Germany and the United Kingdom, as well as representatives of the European Union and NATO, to discussions with Ukraine in Miami, Florida.
American-Ukrainian talks will take place Friday and Saturday in Miami. The United States invited France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the European Union and NATO to join the discussions. The talks will focus on "new ideas" put forward by Washington to end the conflict with Russia.
The city of Heidenau, in the eastern centre of Germany, approved a motion by the extreme right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) banning the planned installation of Stolpersteine, these cobbles of memory paying tribute to the victims of Nazism. A decision that provokes an outcry.
Like France with Zinédine Zidane, Germany and the Netherlands are starting their new eras with their new breeders. The two nations claimed to be in reconstruction and were fighting for the beginning of the League of Nations.
The French executive had to make new announcements on Tuesday afternoon to respond to the upsurge in fuel prices. These sharp pump increases also do not spare France's European neighbours. Belgium, Germany, Italy and Spain: each state is responding to the current energy crisis. Overview.
The far right (AfD) has never been so strong in Germany since 1945. What analysis of the two victories in the AfD for fifteen days? Is she the first opposition force overseas? Can Friedrich Merz hold? What does the far left victory in Berlin also say? Let's talk with Hélène Miard-Delacroix, professor at the Sorbonne, specialist in contemporary Germany and author of "Heritage Enemies. A Franco-German dialogue" (Fayard, 2021) and Hans Stark, professor of contemporary German civilization at Sorbonne University.
While regional elections took place on Sunday in Germany, Internet users assured, with video rigged in support, that the far right party of AfD had been the victim of fraud. Other manipulative images were used to report alleged irregularities in the election.
In the regional elections of 20 September in the German region of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, false testimonies probably generated by IA made it appear that there were ballots without mention of the extreme right party Alternative für Deutschland. In Berlin, where an election was also being held, another false sequence made it appear that AfD ballots were being destroyed.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz was under pressure on Monday 21 September to recover after regional electoral defeats against the radical left and the extreme right, the latter even predicting his departure before the end of the year. In the north-east of the country, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, its Conservative party, the CDU, was eliminated from the assembly, failing to achieve the elimination score of 5%, a first for a regional state in the history of the country since 1945. For further analysis, Paul Maurice, Secretary General of the Franco-German Relations Studies Committee at IFRI,
The extreme right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) is victorious on Sunday 20 September in regional elections in the Land of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the north-east of the country, while the radical left party, Die Linke, won a separate election in the capital Berlin. Both elections resulted in heavy losses for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the party of Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Anne Salles, a lecturer in German studies at Sorbonne University, was the guest of FRANCE 24.
German conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz promised on Monday 21 September the continuation of his government with the Social Democrats, assuring that it was about the "democratic future" of Germany after scathing electoral defeats against the far right and the radical left. After his press conference, Caroline de Camaret, France 24 Europe Head of Service, gives us his analysis.
In northeastern Germany, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Chancellor Merz's Conservative party, the CDU, was eliminated from the assembly, failing to achieve the elimination score of 5%, a first for a regional state in the country's history since 1945. The anti-migrant and pro-Russian party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), came first with about 38% of the votes, although a left alliance seems to be in a better position to form the regional executive.
The extreme right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) won the elections on Sunday 20 September in the Land of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, in the north-eastern part of the country, although it was its worst election result since 1949, called "desaster" by Chancellor Friedrich Merz. The Left Party (Die Linke, radical left) is also at the head of a separate election in the capital, Berlin.
The German regional elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin both marked the defeat of the same party: Friedrich Merz's CDU. After the recent shock caused by the wide-ranging victory of the far right in Saxony-Anhalt, already analysed as a failure of the Chancellor's policy, can Friedrich Merz survive these two new setbacks?
Friedrich Merz and his party, the CDU, recorded on Sunday what the German Chancellor called "desaster" in regional elections. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the Conservative party failed to get elected to the regional assembly, failing to reach the 5% elimination bar, a first in the country's history since 1945. In Berlin, the radical left, Die Linke, is ahead of the Christian Democrats and is in a position to ravage their town hall.
Nearly four million German voters are called to the polls on Sunday for two regional elections where the progress of the far-right AfD party and the radical left could cause further turmoil in Berlin and affect Chancellor Friedrich Merz, already very fragile. We're talking to our columnist Antoine Mariotti.
