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From his arrival on Saturday night, Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed French sovereignty over the archipelago of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, in the North Atlantic. He must meet with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. His first visit to the Overseas Territory came a few weeks after US President Donald Trump published a photo on social media showing this area covered by the American flag.
An exhibition at the Fabre Museum of Montpellier claims the man who overturned the codes of decorative art and boldly decorated the Elysus Palace for several presidents
On Saturday, September 19, President Emmanuel Macron began a symbolic visit to San Pedro and Miquelon, a French territory off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, where he will receive Mark Carney. The first visit in the history of a Canadian Prime Minister to that archipelago takes place at a time when Carney has marked a turn in Ottawa's foreign policy towards Europe, amid the growing tensions with Donald Trump.
More than 4,000 km from Paris, the French archipelago of San Pedro and Miquelon, located opposite Canada, returns to the centre of geopolitics. Emmanuel Macron seeks to return his strategic dimension after the publication of a map on Donald Trump's social network where the territory appeared with the US flag. United States. To strengthen its position, France is trying to get close to Canada, while in Miquelon the resettlement of families is progressing by rising sea level.
A small, isolated but strategic French archipelago at the edge of the North Atlantic: Emmanuel Macron travels from this Saturday, September 19 to Monday, September 21, to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, where he will display, alongside Prime Minister Mark Carney, the unity of Canada, France and Europeans and the "sovereignty of nations" facing the blows of Donald Trump.
The "nature of Russian aggression and threats in Europe are changing", President Emmanuel Macron warned on 18 September. We talk about this with our guest Jacques Faure, former French Ambassador to Ukraine (2008-2011).
This Sunday, Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney are to display the "sovereignty of nations" in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon against Donald Trump - who recently published a map where the entire North America was displayed as a United States... For the French president, "to spend three days there is a way to recall French sovereignty," explains our guest Guillaume Poiret, geographer and North American specialist.
The prices of fuel and gas in France were fired. The concern led President Emmanuel Macron to convene a meeting of the G7, whose presidency this year France exercises, to strengthen energy cooperation and to consider a possible coordinated release of strategic oil reserves. The tension over the US-Iran war and the blockade of the Ormuz Strait has increased prices and made it difficult for oil and liquefied natural gas to pass around the world.
The French President warns that the hybrid attacks in Moscow have been on the rise in the country and in Europe. And he claims that "they won't go without an answer."
Most of the presidential candidates for next Spring responded to the French President's call for a crisis meeting around the "rapid deterioration" of the geopolitical situation and the prices of fuel that are breaking records. An energy G7 will soon be organized by Emmanuel Macron, who also expressed his fears about Russian hybrid attacks. The details of Flore Simon, political columnist in France 24.
The war in Ukraine and the closure of the Ormuz Strait for the war in Iran have direct consequences in France. President Emmanuel Macron met with the Welsh political leaders and then addressed the press to announce that he gave the order to protect the critical infrastructure and facilities of the country's defence industry from "Russian hybrid attacks." The president also stated that the fuel crisis in the country is not linked to any Government decision. Our journalist Erika Olavarría has added information.
Emmanuel Macron announced on Friday 18 September that he had asked the French government to "prepare a plan to protect our critical infrastructures" in the face of the Russian "hybrid" attacks, which will not remain "not without answers" from Europeans. The "nature of Russian aggression and threats in Europe changes", warned the French president after having received in the Elysée the party leaders and candidates in the presidential election of 2027.
The French President, Emmanuel Macron, addressed the press after meeting with political leaders, with whom he assessed the situation in the country, in the midst of external situations that have affected the Galo territory, such as the war in Ukraine, the changes in the Russian strategy and the oil crisis caused by the war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Ormuz. The President said that although France is not involved in these events, it is being affected and diplomatic efforts are being made to reopen the strategic trade step in the Middle East.
The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, stated on Friday, 18 September, that he ordered measures to protect the critical infrastructure and facilities of his country's defence industry from "Russian hybrid attacks." He also noted that the threat from Moscow has intensified in recent weeks.
Faced with a "rapid degradation" of the geopolitical situation and the "unbearable" fuel prices, Emmanuel Macron began on Friday 18 September a confidential meeting at the Elysée with the main presidential candidates or their right hand. The details of Roselyne Febvre, a political columnist in France 24.
During the meeting between the party leaders and Emmanuel Macron, which is taking place this Friday, September 18, Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally, asked to accept "a reduction in fuel taxes", in response to the "suffering" of "the France that works". The explanations of Johan Bodin, journalist in France 24.
Emmanuel Macron said Russia's hybrid threat had "intensified" and called for plans to protect critical infrastructure.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Jordanian King Abdala II met with French President Emmanuel Macron on September 17 in Paris to promote international support for the Lebanese Army in the end of the UN FIFUL mission in southern Lebanon, scheduled for December 2026. Aoun took advantage of the meeting to address with Macron the situation in the south of the country and what Beirut calls continued Israeli "attacks," as well as the state of negotiations between Lebanon, the United States and Israel.
Emmanuel Macron received on Friday at the Élysée the main candidates for his succession, or their representatives, for a meeting dedicated to the rise in fuel prices and the geopolitical situation. Édouard Philippe, Gabriel Attal, Bruno Retailleau, Raphaël Glucksmann, Olivier Faure, Marine Tondelier and Fabien Roussel will be present. Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon will be represented by Jordan Bardella and Manuel Bompard.
French President Emmanuel Macron is meeting leaders of France’s political parties at the Elysée on Friday for talks on the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine and the consequences for the country’s security and energy amid soaring fuel prices.
