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FRANCE 24
February 17, 2018
The intent of the meddling, the indictment says, was to "sow discord in the U.S. political system, including the 2016 presidential election." ... According to the indictment, the Internet Research Agency started interfering as early as 2014 in U.S. politics, extending to the 2016 presidential election.
Irish Times
February 17, 2018
It is not a gilded retirement home for political fixers. Spain's tactic has been to tout the support of Germany and to add that Philip Lane would be ideal for the post of ECB chief economist falling due in 2019. France though is using the contest to test the waters for the big prize, the race to succeed ECBÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
February 17, 2018
The rape accusation, which coincided with similar claims of sexual harassment and assault against men in positions of power in politics, media and beyond, ... Earlier this week, French newspaper Le Point reported that a second woman had accused Darmanin of using his former political position to extractÃÂ ...
Kuwait News Agency
February 17, 2018
PARIS, Feb 16 (KUNA) -- The French Foreign Ministry on Friday welcomed the appointment of Martin Griffiths as a new UN Special Envoy for Yemen and ... "Only a political solution will allow for the preservation of the territorial integrity of the country, bring back lasting peace and security and bring an end toÃÂ ...
The Guardian
February 15, 2018
With Jon Henley to discuss France and Brexit are Sonia Delesalle-Stolper, the UK and Ireland correspondent for Liberation, Eric Albert, who writes for Le Monde mainly on UK economic affairs, and Renaud Thillaye, an EU and French politics analyst with the business advisory firm Flint Global. Thillaye isÃÂ ...
The Guardian
January 29, 2018
He promises no happy ending to the tensions that still plague France, but the book manages to thrill and entertain, while never losing the sharp political edge that also makes it important. Andrew Hussey is the author of The French Intifada (Granta, 2014). • Savages: The Wedding is published by Corsair.
New York Times
December 31, 1999
As the gritty political drama ends its second season on the French TV network Canal+ this week, its similarities with recent political developments in France have many politicians and politics junkies marveling at its realism and the way it sheds light on the unexpected current state of French politics.
Economic Times
December 17, 2017
NEW DELHI: From memoirs to essays, a spate of books written by Indian politicians will be out in 2018, which promises to be the year of political tomes, publishers here said ... HarperCollins will publish Yechury's book on Indian politics today, described by the publisher as "one of its kind from a Left leader".
Fort Worth Star Telegram (blog)
December 17, 2017
A county constable says deputies' 2016 investigation into an accusatory fake online profile of now-Sheriff Bill Waybourn led to an unexpected suspect: defeated Texas House candidate Bo French. “I was very surprised,” said Constable David Woodruff, an Arlington Republican: “I sure wasn't expecting that.”à...
TASS
December 17, 2017
MOSCOW, December 16. /TASS/. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed the situation in Syria and the upcoming bilateral contacts during a telephone conversation with France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported on its website on Saturday.
POLITICO.eu
December 15, 2017
PARIS — Are you a French conservative who can't stand populism, but isn't exactly in love with President Emmanuel Macron's centrist politics either? ... Launched in late November, France's newest political movement (whose name means “Act”) is offering shelter to conservatives who are horrified by theirÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 10, 2017
Moreover, in the Muslim world, Mr. Trump has focused on demolishing the Islamic State and isolating Iran, but he has avoided delving into the region's fraught politics. By contrast, the French government has not shied from tackling political problems in the Middle East. France has “capital to spend” in theÃÂ ...
POLITICO.eu
December 9, 2017
PARIS — While Europe hails progress on Brexit, France's political class is bracing for a storm to hit hard on the home front. ... Macron fear that Wauquiez will radicalize their once-staid Gaullist movement, turning it into a French version of the U.S. Tea Party by echoing National Front boss Marine Le Pen.
Voice of America
December 2, 2017
"Corsica receives a lot of subsidies from the French government, and Corsica is a special situation concerning taxes," said political analyst Philippe ... head Simeoni, a moderate nationalist, as a local variation of French President Emmanuel Macron, who exploded traditional French party politics with his ...
The News International
December 2, 2017
The naming ceremony of this tiny panda cub will serve as an unlikely setting for international diplomacy. France's First Lady Brigitte Macron, the godmother to the new panda, will be joined by Chinese officials to choose a new name. The cub, until now referred to as "Mini Yuan Zi" after his father was the first ...
War on the Rocks
December 1, 2017
There have to be political solutions, economic development, and vastly improved governance. The French know this. They state openly that their strategy rests on the three legs of security, politics, and development. The challenge is to follow through and go beyond policy statements; France, like the United ...
FRANCE 24
December 1, 2017
Social Democrat chief Martin Schulz said Friday he backed starting talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel on ending Germany's political deadlock, but left options open on what shape any future cooperation would take. After talks with the veteran leader late Thursday, Schulz said he would recommend that ...
POLITICO.eu
November 27, 2017
... and is poisoning German politics on the eve of grand coalition talks. After more than two years of fierce political debate over whether glyphosate ... glyphosate license in Brussels on Monday, France and Italy sought to block it. ... French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Agriculture Minister Maurizio ...
Express.co.uk
November 27, 2017
But last night, the exiled group formed a new political party called Agir - which means "to act" - in a piece published by French daily Le Figaro.
FRANCE 24
November 26, 2017
Ireland could face new elections when a political crisis comes to a head ... said David Farrell, a politics professor at University College Dublin, ...
Daily Sabah
November 26, 2017
A new French political party is arising out of a splinter group from the right-leaning Republican Party, local media reported on Sunday. Nineteen ...
The Local France
November 20, 2017
France is hoping that Germany will remain a "stable and strong" partner to allow the two partners to "move forward together", the French ...
ABC News
November 16, 2017
France's Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and his Moroccan counterpart Saad-Eddine El Othmani attend as their ministers exchange signed ...
Aljazeera.com
November 15, 2017
France is making a diplomatic push to solve the political crisis caused by the snap resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri earlier this month, .... But according to Malsagne, "the main weaknesses of French diplomacy remain its weak influence on Lebanese politics, [which is] essentially pilotedÃÂ ...
Christian Science Monitor
November 13, 2017
The Louvre Abu Dhabi is the most recent example of France selling its ... French cultural diplomacy is being supplanted by brand politics: Abu ...
New York Times
November 13, 2017
Emboldened by the enormous response in France to the #MeToo wave that was ... encounters more obstacles, her violated dignity leads to a political awakening. ... French politics and society. ... His scathing text, published in Le Monde and The New York Times, shocked a group of French academics, who ...
Sputnik International
November 13, 2017
"Of course France still has political influence in Lebanon… We have the links between French and Lebanese economic and political officials. ... and Strategic Affairs (IRIS) and a specialist in Middle East politics, told Sputnik.
POLITICO.eu
November 13, 2017
The backing of a French president — even one whose approval ratings have ... So far, Macron has not joined any European political family.
Business Insider
November 5, 2017
Less discussed in the United States is his role in one of the biggest scandals and unsolved mysteries in French politics. The Karachi Affair ...
FRANCE 24
October 26, 2017
The election is the chaotic climax of a political drama that began when the Supreme Court overturned the victory of President Uhuru Kenyatta in ...
Hyperallergic
October 26, 2017
A French Director Who Turned the Experience of May '68 into Intimate Cinema ... quickly turned to disenchantment, and the political foundation of his work was ... It's sometimes difficult to discern the politics in the Zanzibar films, especially ... made both in France and the United States, is a visual excess that ...
The Local France
October 26, 2017
If you have lived in France, or perhaps simply been a regular observer of French media and politics, you'll have witnessed how often people ...
Akron Beacon Journal
October 26, 2017
UA political science class will bring together students on four ... to talk about politics and a new international political science course ... Green said France has a new president who created his own political movement last year.
POLITICO.eu
October 25, 2017
Europe's wolf packs are racing up the political agenda as farmers seek to protect their ... From the French Alps to the forests of Germany, these lean, ... A mere 300 wolves in France slaughtered some 10,000 sheep last year.
The Connexion
October 25, 2017
The last few months have seen a host of politicking in France, with associated protests and strikes, and I wonder what the UK residents in ...
OZY
October 25, 2017
A full 9 percent of respondents to the Wyylde survey didn't know their own spouse's political leanings, and 29 percent said they didn't know ...
FRANCE 24
October 24, 2017
Egypt is a key French partner in the Middle East and a major buyer of ... “We have imprisoned no political activists,” Sisi told FRANCE 24 in an ...
CNBC
October 23, 2017
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British PM Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron at Brexit talks on October 19, 2017 in ...
FRANCE 24
October 20, 2017
Obama slams 'politics of division' on campaign trail in Virginia .... University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato said the New ...
Telegraph.co.uk
December 31, 1999
... champion of small-town, rural France - a France, he says, with which Macron has no connection as he pursues a "start-up nation". While there are few policy parallels between the two men, Wauquiez and Macron actually have some traits in common. Both are younger than French political leaders usuallyÃÂ ...
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
That later became the name of a research grant program sponsored by the French presidency to attract U.S.-based scientists — like Cantrell, 62, ... For Cantrell, the decision to move to France is not a political one, but a response to a gradual decline in public funds in his field, which he did not expect to getÃÂ ...
POLITICO.eu
December 31, 1999
Where Schiappa was less adamant was on the subject of exposing powerful men in French politics, media and entertainment who were guilty of harassment. Despite an ongoing purge in the United States, where star news anchor Charlie Rose, Hollywood actor Jeremy Piven, New York Times reporter ...
The Economist
December 31, 1999
Just half a year ago he pulled off one of the most audacious political ... election on the most pro-European platform French voters had seen for a ... did in France, Mr Macron's advisers want to reconfigure European politics to ...
africanews
October 3, 2017
France has officially commented on the ongoing political crisis in Cameroon's English-speaking regions. Paris called on all parties to exerciseÃÂ ...
Georgetown University The Hoya
October 3, 2017
Former French Ambassador Examines Current European Politics ... Prior to joining the foreign service as a political appointee, Hartley worked as an ... Former U.S. Ambassador to France Jane Hartley also expressed concernÃÂ ...
CNBC
October 2, 2017
Meanwhile, Germany's prolonged interregnum will leave France in a ... French President Emmanuel Macron has staked his political future onÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
September 30, 2017
Dr. Paul Smith, an associate professor of French politics at the ... Under Article 89 of France's constitution, the president would need theÃÂ ...
ABC News
September 24, 2017
France: Macron's party suffers hit in French Senate election ... he created it to shake up French politics and attract voters tired of the status quo. ... instead of candidates of Macron's party, many of whom are political newcomers.
POLITICO.eu
September 24, 2017
That political concession to France — and its all-powerful farmers — means Brussels broke one of its oldest taboos. The European CommissionÃÂ ...
New York Times
September 21, 2017
In France, where paid political advertising on television is prohibited, ... however, the immense sums of money swirling around politics and theÃÂ ...
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