Tag: France

FRANCE/RACIAL JUSTICE – Documenting police violence is a form of resistance (Mitali Nagrecha, Al Jazeera)

Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Paris in recent days demanding the state scrap part of a proposed security bill that would criminalise...

FRANCE/CLIMATE CHANGE – Macron offers referendum on adding climate goal to constitution (Al Arabiya)

French President Emmanuel Macron gives a press conference. (AFP) French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday promised to hold a referendum on revising the constitution to...

FRANCE/IMMIGRATION – How the French Understand Immigrant Integration and Citizenship (Christophe Bertossi, IFRI)

On December 9, 2020 will be celebrated the 115th anniversary of the 1905 law on French secularism (laïcité). On the very same day, a new...

FRANCE/TURKEY – France tells Turkey to clarify positions if it wants constructive ties (Al Arabiya)

France’s foreign minister told his Turkish counterpart on Tuesday that a renewed constructive relationship with the European Union could only happen if Ankara clarified...

JAPAN/FRANCE/USA/UK/CHINA- Japan, France, US, UK make hypocritical naval moves against China (Zhang Junshe, Global Times)

The guided-missile frigate Yulin (Hull 569) attached to a destroyer flotilla with the navy under the PLA Southern Theater Command fires its rocket-propelled depth...

FRANCE/EGYPT – Macron rejects calls to get tough with Egypt’s el-Sisi on rights (Al Jazeera)

France will not condition weapons sales to Egypt on human rights concerns, French President Emmanuel Macron said after meeting with his Egyptian counterpart in...

FRANCE/ISLAM – France and Islam: Identity, Politics, and Geopolitics (Brookings, Berkeley Center for Religion Peace & World Affairs)

https://www.brookings.edu/events/france-and-islam-identity-politics-and-geopolitics/

JAPAN/FRANCE/USA – Japan, France, US plan their first joint military drills in May (Al Arabiya)

US Marines from 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force based Okinawa, Japan, march during the US-South Korea joint military exercises (AP) Japan, France, and the United States...

FRANCE – France charges suspect in deadly 1982 Paris attack (Al-Monitor)

 Walid Abdulrahman Abu Zayed has been charged over a deadly 1982 attack in a Jewish area of Paris Photo by Terje Bendiksby/NTB/AFP/File. A suspect in a...

TURKEY/FRANCE – Erdogan hopes France ‘gets rid of Macron trouble’ (Al Jazeera)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said he hopes France will soon get rid of President Emmanuel Macron, describing him as a burden...

LEBANON/FRANCE – France’s Macron pushes Lebanon aid meeting with no political progress (Al Arabiya)

Lebanese President Michel Aoun welcomes French President Emmanuel Macron at Beirut International airport, Lebanon August 31, 2020. (Reuters) President Emmanuel Macron will seek to revive...