emmanuel macron

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/emmanuel-brigitte-macron-candace-owens-lawsuit-defamation That's quite a conspiracy theory. In the past Owens also said that the Apollo landings were a hoax, and some suggested that this was a joke. It doesn't seem like this is a joke, whether she...

Phew ! I mean he was absolutely the lesser of two evils, but the lesser by a considerable margin. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61209058

French President Emmanuel Macron will propose new rules cracking down on fake news during elections this year, he said in an annual speech to the press today. https://www.politico.eu/pro/macron-proposes-new-law-against-fake-news/ Yummy, truth tribunals

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/28/donald-trump-france-visit-bastille-day-240042 I think Macron set up a trap to basically make Trump look like an idiot and Macron look like a statesman...and boost Macron's standing in France. And Trump's ego made him walk right into it. Going be...

And now the fun begins. What Macron has to avoid is becoming panicked, when, as seems inevitable, the left opposition takes to the streets. Trying to cower the government with that tactic goes back to the French Revolution...and worked until Napoleon's "Whiff of Grapeshot",

There's not much about this in mainstream media yet, so I post one of the few English articles I found on that. There are warnings not to disseminate the leaked data (which came out midnight in the night from Friday to Saturday, just as the French news blackout regarding the election came into...

Five weeks before the first round, this year's French presidential election promises to be like none before it. For the first time in the history of the 5th republic, it may well be that the two main political blocks will both be thrown out during the first round. Current polling indeed has far...