A poll by French institute Atlas Intel has become the first to indicate right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen could beat French President Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the presidential elections – unless the first-round elections are flawed as they were in the US elections.
Opinion polls point to the far-right’s Marine Le Pen as the main challenger to President Emmanuel Macron’s re-election, in a repeat of the 2017 match. Le Pen has shifted her campaign focus to purchasing power, the number one priority for French voters, without shedding far-right policies from her election programme. read more. Here are her main policy proposals:
After a short yet controversial reign, France’s vaccine pass regime is set to be suspended – a code word for ended – by mid-March. First introduced in January, France’s health pass system was controversial even before implementation, with the country’s president, Emmanuel Macron, explicitly stating that the purpose of the new measures was to ‘piss off’ the nation’s Covid unvaccinated.
The authorities have illegally stopped 500 vehicles outside the French capital ahead of an anti-mandate protest. French state police say they intercepted around 500 vehicles so far, they claim are ‘trying to enter Paris as part of an anti-mandate Freedom Convoy’ protest on Saturday.
NEWS ROOM: – The Paris state police prefecture said on Saturday it arrested and confined 44 civil rights protestors in the French capital during the Freedom Convoy civil liberties rally against government repression.
Emmanuel Macron has suggested that deliberately ‘pissing off’ the ‘unvaccinated’ will persuade more to take their notorious Covid-19 shots, saying he is doing all he can to eliminate vax sceptics from public life.
A total of 847 cars were set ablaze in France in the early hours of the first day of the new year, the Interior Ministry admitted, with hundreds of people detained over the wanton destruction.
Several statements are to be made in Paris, which will take over the post of interim EU presidency from January 1 for six months. One of them will concern a radical revision (cancellation) of the open borders’ provisions of Schengen legislation.
In January 2021, French President Macron stated there would be no repentance nor apologies for the French colonisation of Algeria, colonial abuses or French involvement during the Algerian independence war.
The Notre Dame Cathedral is being rebuilt after a fire. It was decided to restore the damaged roof to its previous appearance. However, in the relatively intact internal chapels, they plan to completely change the interior. As the journalist of The Daily Telegraph, who got acquainted with the project, notes, many ecclesiastical experts strongly criticise it.
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