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Initially estimated at 12 million euros, the cost of the Pope's visit was finally increased to 27 million euros, in the face of the enthusiasm generated by his arrival in France. But who pays for this religious visit to a secular country? Our journalist Héloïse Mélan explains everything.
Conflicts in the Middle East have an impact on the world economy. The fuel crisis affects many countries, including France. Seven months before the presidential elections, the executive was deployed to try to calm the social grunt that was rising due to the high prices at the pump. The Prime Minister is holding two meetings today in Matignon to act on aid and oil supplies.
Sébastien Lecornu will hold Monday, September 21, two meetings in Matignon with ministers: one in the morning with the directors of central administrations on oil and gas supplies, disturbed by a war in the Middle East that is going on forever, and the other in the afternoon dedicated to "the short- and medium-term accompaniment" of the French against the boom of prices at the pump. The explanations of Flore Simon, political columnist in France 24.
Donald Trump will meet his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Monday 21 September in the afternoon. The two leaders will discuss in New York, where they will also participate in the United Nations General Assembly later this week.
The proposal for a comprehensive law against gender-based and sexual violence enters into the midst of its parliamentary process on Monday, with the beginning of its consideration by a special commission of the National Assembly. The government hopes that the text will be promulgated before the end of Emmanuel Macron's quinquennium, but the associations fear that the parliamentary shuttle will not succeed.
Four days ahead of Pope Leo’s visit to France, preparations have been underway for months. From Friday, the Pope will travel to Paris, Lourdes and Metz, with several sensitive issues hanging over the trip, including clerical sexual abuse and France’s assisted-dying law. For now, security remains the top priority. Camille Corcoran reports.
French President Emmanuel Macron received Sunday, September 20 in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney who declared that he wanted to "close the ties" between the two countries and with the European Union. The two leaders intended to display their respective sovereignty in the face of Donald Trump's blows.
Pope Leo XIV on Friday begins a four-day visit to France, where the Catholic Church's views on abortion and euthanasia run counter to the values of a secular country that recently enshrined abortion in its constitution and gave final approval to a bill establishing the right to assisted dying.
Persecuted in their country of origin, they hoped to start a new life in the United States. They were deported to Cameroon, where they have no ties. France 24 investigated with Forbidden Stories the situation of several African migrant women welcomed in a Yaoundé centre, after their expulsion by the Trump administration, under a secret agreement negotiated between the leaders of the two countries.
Within a consortium of 26 media coordinated by Forbidden Stories, France 24 investigated for several months the secret agreements between the Trump administration and several African countries, designated as "third countries", ready to host people expelled by the ICE.
In response to the Iranian authorities' decision to close a French language center affiliated with its embassy in Tehran, France vowed to take appropriate measures.
Thousands marched across France on Sunday against a bill that would presume police officers acted lawfully when using their weapons, a measure critics have denounced as a "licence to kill".
Iran accuses the French language centre of conducting 'illegal acts that violated diplomatic conventions'.
Amid strained relations with the US, French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced closer economic and defense ties.
Announcement comes as Canada seeks a closer relationship with the EU amid a trade war with the US.
French President Emmanuel Macron said France and Canada were "two great independent nations who want to stay that way" in a joint news conference with Canadian leader Mark Carney Sunday. Watch the press conference by the two leaders on the French overseas territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon just off Canada's Atlantic coast.
French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday called for stronger bilateral ties in the face of new global threats at a meeting on Saint Pierre and Miquelon, a French territory off Canada's Newfoundland. The first-ever visit by a Canadian leader to the North Atlantic archipelago came as both countries have increasingly awkward relations with the US.
In Caen, demonstrators protested on Sunday, 20 September, against the bill to establish a presumption of self-defence for police and gendarmes. Adopted at first reading by the National Assembly on 7 July, the text provides that officers are presumed to have acted legally when using their weapon, unless proven otherwise. Opponents of the draft report a risk of weakening control over the use of weapons by law enforcement.
On Sunday, Iranian justice announced the closure of the Centre de langue française (CLF), one of the main French educational institutions in Iran, linked to the French Embassy. She accuses him of carrying out "illegal activities". France denounced an unjustified decision and raised the threat of possible elections.
Six French nationals suspected of belonging to the Islamic State (IS) organization are tried from Sunday in Baghdad, Iraq, where they face the death penalty. Iraqi prisons, already full of ISIS suspects, have been hosting thousands of detainees from Syria since last year.
