Emmanuel Macron

France: Le Pen, Macron duel

M M AlamApril 21, 2022

PARIS: Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen prepared Wednesday for their one-off televised debate four days ahead of Presidential elections of France, seeking to sway millions of voters who are still undecided. France in Sunday’s second round run-off faces a stark choice between the centrist president Macron and the anti-immigration Le Pen who will seek […]

Franco-Pakistanis support Emmanuel Macron

M M AlamApril 20, 2022

PARIS: Tabassum Saleem, Special Correspondent of NewsPakistan.TV in France is a member of President Macron Politics Party “La République en Marche” from Paris district 15th. As a campaigner of the party she met a number of Franco-Pakistani traders and found out that most support Emmanuel Macron because they believe that Macron could raise France to […]

France: Macron, Le Pen trade barbs

M M AlamApril 19, 2022

PARIS: Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen traded barbs Monday as they returned to campaigning for the French presidency ahead of a prime-time debate that is likely to prove decisive ahead of next weekend’s second-round run-off. The two rivals held low-key events after a brief Easter pause before Wednesday’s face-off, when the centrist Macron will […]

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France asks Israel to drop West Bank annexation plans

M M AlamJuly 10, 2020

PARIS: Emmanuel Macron asked Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to refrain from annexing Palestinian territory in the West Bank and elsewhere during a telephone call between the two leaders, the French president’s office said on Friday. Macron “emphasised that such a move would contravene international law and jeopardise the possibility of a two-state solution as […]

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Macron names senior French official Jean Castex new PM: presidency

M M AlamJuly 3, 2020

PARIS: President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named senior French civil servant Jean Castex, who drew up the policy for easing the coronavirus lockdown, as his new prime minister as part of a government reshuffle. “The president of the Republic has named Jean Castex as prime minister and mandated him to form a government,” the presidency […]