MEP Gilles Boyer is pushing for a quick nomination of the French Renaissance party’s lead candidate for the June elections and is in favor of Clément Beaune, Emmanuel Macron’s former European advisor. The campaign for the 2024 European elections must be launched quickly, says French MEP Gilles Boyer, who is close to former Prime Minister […]
The guns do the talking in Brussels. Shots were fired in the Brussels municipality of Schaerbeek on Saturday night. They followed shootings last Wednesday, Tuesday and Sunday.Within one year, between February 1, 2023 and February 14, 2024, there were 19 shootings, as calculated by the Belgian daily newspaper Le Soir. And as the newspaper’s graphic […]
It is a political victory for the Rassemblement National (RN): Fabrice Leggeri, the former Executive Director of the EU border protection agency Frontex, has announced that he will stand as a candidate for the far-right party in France in the European elections. “I am convinced that this is the political option that gives the French […]
One month after the first announcements of the government reshuffle in France, Gabriel Attal’s government is now complete. It has 35 ministers and state secretaries. However, Attal has not succeeded in attracting new faces from the right or left.Agnès Pannier-Runacher, who was Minister for the Energy Transition until the beginning of January, was surprisingly appointed […]
It’s a cry from the heart. Greens and socialists, “stop the nonsense, come together“, demanded former Green MEP José Bové last month. He came to Bordeaux to support socialist MEP Raphaël Glucksmann (S&D). Glucksmann was officially appointed as the lead candidate for the joint list of the Socialist Party and Place publique, the political movement […]
Throughout his life, he advocated for Franco-German rapprochement: The renowned scholar Alfred Grosser passed away at the age of 99 last Wednesday in Paris. “All actors of Franco-German friendship are orphans today. Alfred Grosser was a humanist link between our two countries and a deep source of inspiration,” wrote the French Ambassador to Germany, François […]
It was through Jacques Delors and Michel Rocard that French MEP and agricultural expert Christophe Clergeau (S&D) first came into contact with European matters. The staunchly pro-European stance of the two socialists differed significantly from public opinion in France, which can quickly swing towards Euroscepticism.In 2019, Christophe Clergeau was appointed National Secretary for Europe of […]
It’s another blow to the Farm to Fork strategy: In a speech before the European Parliament on Tuesday, Ursula von der Leyen announced that the EU Commission is withdrawing the proposal for the SUR Regulation, which aims to halve pesticide use by 2030. According to her, the Commission could develop a “new, much more sophisticated […]
It is THE topic of the day in the Brussels climate-environment bubble: Diederik Samsom, the real eminence grise for climate issues in the European Commission, is leaving his post as Head of Cabinet of Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra. The departure of this expert on international climate negotiations gives rise to one of the Brussels bubble’s […]
“We have saved our Camemberts“, Valérie Hayer triumphed on X in November last year. The French MEP was referring to the retention of wooden boxes for Camemberts, which had become a contentious issue during the negotiations on the packaging regulation.It is not surprising that the 37-year-old is interested in Camembert packets: Hayer is the daughter […]