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France has closed its permanent military bases in Chad and Ivory Coast since early 2025, but no base closure has been ...
The UK and Germany have agreed a friendship treaty aimed at resetting the countries' post-Brexit relations. The treaty comes ...
By Ben Aris in Berlin At least four countries are already bailing out of commitments to pay the US for weapons supplies for Ukraine, raising a question mark over the level of support Ukraine can ...
Editor’s note: On July 17th Sir Keir Starmer and Friedrich Merz signed the treaty described in this story.
Neither of the conference’s conveners, French President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, will attend, according to Le Monde.The post French, Saudi leaders bow out of own ...
France is giving more autonomy to the South Pacific territory of New Caledonia. But a wide-ranging agreement stops short of granting it independence. HPR’s Derrick Malama has more in the Pacific News ...
Alexander Stepanov said that there is now fierce competition for pan-European defense budgets, in which Paris is trying to maintain its partially independent position, taking into account the real cap ...
When speaking about how French citizens would react to such a decision, Bruno Fuchs noted that French President Emmanuel Macron didn't need to worry about what the voting public thinks ...
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou proposed the elimination of two public holidays from the country’s annual calendar to save money in next year’s budget.
French President Macron denounces the allegations as ‘false information’ and a violation of personal privacy.
The proposal is among a raft of spending cuts laid out by Prime Minister Francois Bayrou in a sweeping, and potentially ...
The measure most likely to rankle the French was a proposal to scrap two national holidays: Easter Monday and May 8, which ...