“It is anger that is being expressed,” said Arnaud Rousseau, President of the powerful Fédération Nationale des Syndicats d’Exploitants Agricoles (FNSEA) on French public broadcaster France Inter on Monday. In France, farmers are currently stepping up their actions in the countryside – in particular with blockades on the highways in southern France. These actions will […]
There are sentences that hurt. Sentences like this one: “This person is not part of the government.” The sentence is written under the name of Clément Beaune, who was transport minister before President Emmanuel Macron’s government reshuffle. Since then, people in Paris have been asking themselves: What next? What will become of Clément Beaune?Apparently, he […]
The signal is clear: For his first trip as Minister responsible for energy, Bruno Le Maire decided to visit the Gravelines nuclear power plant in northern France. It is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. The minister, who is now also responsible for energy alongside economic, financial, industrial and digital sovereignty, has always been […]
The Environmental Committee of the European Parliament (ENVI) voted with a majority of 64 in favor, five against, and seven abstentions for the agreement reached at the end of November on the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED). The plenary is expected to vote in the week of March 11 to 13, although the date still needs […]
“Europe is the political DNA of Emmanuel Macron,” says a well-informed liberal source to Table.Media. “He has built his political identity around Europe.” The problem: While the President’s camp still has no leading candidate for the European elections on June 9, the Rassemblement National (RN) is polling about ten percentage points ahead of the lost […]
It is a political rise of meteoric dimensions the likes of which France has rarely seen: At the age of 34, Gabriel Attal was appointed the country’s youngest prime minister on Tuesday. He succeeds Élisabeth Borne, who handed in her resignation on Monday. The loyal member of President Macron’s entourage was only appointed Minister of […]
It’s the end of a long hanging game in Paris: Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne has handed in her resignation. President Emmanuel Macron accepted this and thanked Borne “from the bottom of his heart” on X for her commitment. It is still unclear when a new government will be formed and who will lead it. Borne […]
The European caravan is making its way to Dubai for COP28. “It’s the biggest COP ever, around 70,000 participants are expected in total, that’s huge”, says a veteran of the UN climate negotiations. Among these 70,000 participants, the EU will also be strongly represented: the Parliament, the Council, and the Commission. No fewer than six […]
The negotiators of the Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional political trilogue agreement on Wednesday night on the revision of the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) and the regulation on the establishment of an Industrial Emissions Portal (IEP). The agreement is provisional until it is formally adopted by both institutions.The aim is to reduce […]
The European Parliament’s Environment Committee (ENVI) has adopted the outcome of the negotiations on the EU Nature Restoration Law. The Environment Committee has thus made it possible for the draft law to be finally voted on by the plenary.The committee members adopted the bill by 53 votes to 28 with four abstentions. In order to […]