Emmanuel Macron

• French President Emmanuel Macron tests positive for coronavirus

  French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for COVID-19, the presidential Elysee Palace announced on Thursday.

  World

  Dec 17, 2020
• Demonstrators plan protests across France over security bill

  Dozens of rallies are taking place against the controversial bill, which was approved by the lower house of Parliament this week but still awaits a green light from the Senate.

  World

  Nov 28, 2020
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• Trudeau rejects criticism over Paris attack comments, says Canada defends free speech

  The prime minister's comments come in response to multiple incidences of violence in France amid growing anger over published caricatures of the prophet Muhammad.

  Canada

  Nov 3, 2020
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• Quebec’s premier says France’s Emmanuel Macron has thanked him for backing on free speech

  Quebec Premier François Legault says France's president has thanked him for his support of free speech.

  Canada

  Nov 3, 2020
• Bloc leader seeks to distance party from Trudeau government’s position on free speech

  Blanchet said Monday that Justin Trudeau's response to attacks in France that authorities have attributed to Muslim extremists does not go far enough.

  Canada

  Nov 2, 2020
• Protesters in Pakistan chant anti-French slogans after Macron pleads for understanding

  The demonstrations, which followed anti-France protests across the Muslim world last week, came after President Macron's interview late Saturday in which he said that he understood the shock Muslims felt at caricatures depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

  Politics

  Nov 1, 2020
• ‘Totally unacceptable’: Champagne slams Turkish president’s comments on French leader

  In a tweet Monday afternoon, Foreign Affairs minister François-Philippe Champagne said that Canada stood "in solidarity with our French friends."

  Canada

  Oct 26, 2020
• 6 Russian military officers charged with hacking French election, U.S. businesses

  The indictment also accuses the defendants of destructive attacks on Ukraine's power grid and in a hack-and-leak effort directed at the political party of French President Emmanuel Macron during the 2017 election.

  World

  Oct 19, 2020
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• Macron orders curfew for a 3rd of France to beat back coronavirus

  The virus was spreading at parties and private gatherings, the president said, and action was needed now in Paris and eight other big French cities to slow the rate of infection or else hospitals risked being overwhelmed.

  Health

  Oct 14, 2020
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• ‘All together’: New Caledonia votes to stay part of France in referendum

  Macron promised pro-independence supporters "this is with you, all together, that we will build New Caledonia tomorrow."

  Politics

  Oct 4, 2020