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President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that France would convene a G7 meeting dedicated to energy in the weeks to come as fuel prices soar amid the US-Iran war. Speaking to the press after a meeting with party leaders over the energy crisis and international security, Macron also said he had ordered measures to protect France's critical infrastructure from increasing Russian "hybrid attacks".
Haxie Meyers-Belkin is pleased to welcome Renaud Foucart, Senior Lecturer in Economics at Lancaster University’s Management School in the UK. According to Foucart, France’s energy and economic crises expose a deeper collision between economic constraints, political accountability and an approaching presidential election. He interprets Emmanuel Macron’s rare Élysée meeting with party leaders over soaring energy prices as both an exercise in presidential legacy-building and an attempt to force prospective successors to confront high energy costs, rising borrowing costs, limited fiscal room and t
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.
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.
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.
