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Emmanuel Macron with supporters in Le Touquet, 19 June 2022. Photograph: Michel Spingler/EPA

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Emmanuel Macron likes to defy historical precedent. In 2017, he disrupted France’s political landscape by winning the presidency and upending the country’s traditional left-right divide. In April this year, he became the first French head of state to win re-election for two decades. And now he has bucked the trend again, although not in a manner that will please him: after Sunday’s elections, Macron’s centrist alliance, Ensemble, lost its parliamentary majority – a highly unusual occurrence for a president in the history of the Fifth Republic.

Ensemble won 246 seats, 43 fewer than was needed for a majority. The consensus of the main French polling organisations had been that Macron’s alliance would win between 255 and 295 of the assembly’s 577 seats.…  Seguir leyendo »

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Los líderes europeos intercambiarán con Joe Biden sus puntos de vista sobre la invasión rusa de Ucrania, en el inicio de su cumbre de dos días en Bruselas, tras una reunión de emergencia de la OTAN y una reunión de los jefes de Estado del G-7.

La concentración de reuniones de alto nivel se produce en un momento crítico, tras las masivas rondas iniciales de sanciones occidentales contra el Kremlin y mientras los aliados transatlánticos exploran nuevas medidas para contrarrestar la escalada de violencia de Rusia. La cumbre de la UE con Biden se completará con nuevas medidas occidentales contra Moscú.…  Seguir leyendo »

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Though a ban on freight from the UK was imposed this weekend, France and some other European Union countries hope to be able to ease the restriction from Wednesday – for lorry drivers, returning citizens and other travellers who can prove they have recently tested negative for coronavirus.

Emergency EU talks will be held in Brussels today on how to organise and police a system of checks at airports, Channel ports and the Eurotunnel. And senior EU leaders held a series of crisis talks by phone and videoconference last night. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, spoke privately to Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the pair also spoke to the European council president, Charles Michel, and European commission president, Ursula von der Leyen.…  Seguir leyendo »