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Press coverage this Friday, September 18, the parliamentary elections in Russia, the Trump administration accused of war crimes, and speculation around the first list of the French team's selector, Zinedine Zidane.
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.
Zinédine Zidane entered the spotlight by disclosing Friday, September 18, her first list of players since her appointment as head of the French team at the end of July. The opportunity for the icon of tricolor football to already print its brand with the promotion of several new faces. The details of Hervé Kouamouo, journalist and doctor in sociology of sport.
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.
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced on Thursday night a 2027 budget with €54 billion in savings. But with the presidential election in seven months and an explosive social context, difficult to imagine oppositions take the risk of disappointing their voters by letting such cuts pass. The budget battle promises to look like a lying poker game.
Russians on Friday began three days of voting in the country’s first wartime parliamentary election, which features virtually no opposition and is all but certain to secure the Kremlin’s political dominance. France 24's Douglas Herbert takes a closer look.
President Emmanuel Macron on Friday said he had ordered measures to shield France's key infrastructure and defence industry sites from increasing Russian hybrid attacks. The announcement came as Macron spoke to the press after meeting in Paris with political party leaders to discuss recent developments in the international situation including the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Watch his press conference in full above.
France captain Kylian Mbappé has signed with Swiss sportswear brand On, ending a partnership with Nike that began at the start of his career. The deal marks On’s entry into football, with the company also appointing France and Arsenal great Thierry Henry as its football director.
Geneva 17 October 2024 – This afternoon, His Excellency Mr Jérôme Bonnafont, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations in Geneva, and WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus met in the WHO headquarters for the signing of seven contribution agreements. The contribution totalling €24 million comes through the Ministry of Europe & Foreign Affairs. It fits in the France–WHO Framework Agreement for 2020 to 2025, which provides both a strategic framework for engagement, aligned with WHO priorities, while providing legal, administrative and financial instruments for oper
The reopened Train de Merveilles route takes passengers from the glamour of Nice to a grandiose alpine landscape Nine-thirty on a sunny Tuesday morning, and the platforms at Nice-Ville station are buzzing. Office workers nudge their way past backpackers, passengers clamber on to trains heading east to Monaco and Italy, or west to Antibes and Cannes. My husband and I, however, are heading away from the glittering coastline and boarding the Train des Merveilles (Train of Wonders) into the Alpes-Azur mountains. Back on track last December after a programme of major works closed the line for a yea
Emmanuel Macron said Russia's hybrid threat had "intensified" and called for plans to protect critical infrastructure.
Eric Zemmour, president of the far right party Reconquest!, confirmed on Thursday on BFMTV that he would be a good candidate for the French presidential election of 2027. He finished fourth in the first round of the 2022 election, with 7.07 per cent of the vote.
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.
A 35-year-old police officer who adheres to a "violent radical ultra-right ideology" was arrested on 27 August for preparing a terrorist act and making 3D printed weapons. He is suspected of having targeted State interests in a context of increased vigilance by the French authorities in the face of the threat of ultra-droit.
In France, discussions on the 2027 budget take place. The government is announcing "54 billion efforts on spending that will bring the public deficit to 5% next year," he added, after Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced this. This deficit target "is ambitious, but of course it is achievable. We will all have to make efforts," said Roland Lescure, Minister of Economy.
The Minister for the Sea and Fisheries, Catherine Chabaud, announced on Friday 18 September, following a six-hour meeting in Paris with representatives of Mediterranean fishermen, that she would come Monday 21 at their meeting at the Grau-du-Roi (Gard) and at Sète (Hérault).
Jacques Attali, former adviser to François Mitterrand, president of the NGO "Positive Planet" and author of numerous books was invited on France 24. His latest work published by the Flammarion editions is entitled "La Niaque. How to become more than yourself."
Eight years after fuel taxes helped spark the Yellow Vest movement, calls for a return to the streets are gathering momentum in France amid soaring energy prices. Recent days have seen fishermen blockading ports and oil terminals in protest at price hikes, but they are far from the only group feeling the squeeze.
A cherished 16th-century Mexican manuscript that tells the history of the Aztecs in pictograms went on display Thursday in Mexico City, nearly two centuries after it was whisked off to France. France's National Library, which has maintained possession of it for over a century, loaned it to Mexico to commemorate 200 years of relations between the two countries, although Mexico is pushing for its permanent return.
