[ad_1] PARIS — Sparks are flying over French President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age — not just in the streets, but in parliament too. The proposed pension reforms have unleashed the most turbulent debate in years in the National Assembly, with uncertainty looming over the final outcome. Tensions at parliament are fed by the unpopularity of the reform aimed at raising the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64 and requiring people…
"French pension tension triggers turbulent parliament debate"Tag: French
[ad_1] PARIS (AP) — Pressure is mounting on a French government minister to quit over comments stigmatizing homosexuality and LGBTQ people, in the latest challenge to President Emmanuel Macron’s leadership. Caroline Cayeux’s remarks have hurt and angered many – including her colleagues — and prompted broader discussion around persistent discriminatory attitudes by people in power. More than 100 prominent figures published an appeal Sunday in the newspaper Journal du dimanche questioning why she’s still in…
"‘Those people’: French minister’s LGBTQ remarks spark anger"
[ad_1] PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron was holding talks Tuesday with France’s main party leaders after his centrist alliance failed to win an absolute majority in parliamentary elections. The meetings at the Elysee presidential palace come after Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne formally offered her resignation Tuesday, in line with the tradition after parliamentary elections. Macron immediately rejected the offer and maintained the current government. Macron’s Together! alliance won 245 seats in Sunday’s parliamentary elections…
"Macron holds postelection talks with French party leaders"
[ad_1] Marine Le Pen’s comments in an interview in early February this year were particularly forthright: “I do not believe AT ALL that Russia wishes to invade Ukraine,” she said. The remarks were also rather unfortunate, given that barely a fortnight later Vladimir Putin sent thousands of troops, amassed on Ukraine’s border, into the country. Russian bombardments have since flattened towns and cities, and there have been multiple reports of Russian soldiers murdering, torturing and…
"French election: What exactly is Marine Le Pen’s stance on Russia and Vladimir Putin?"