A French photojournalist working for the Associated Press in Hong Kong was denied entry to the city earlier this month, the Post has learned. A source said Louise Delmotte was questioned by authorities when she arrived at the city’s airport as a tourist on September 14. She was then turned away and repatriated to France….
Steel worker at the blast furnace tap of the at the Salzgitter AG steelworks on March 02, 2020 in Salzgitter, Germany. Maja Hitij | Getty Images News | Getty Images Europe looks to be heading toward a downturn as its biggest economies, Germany and France, battle political and economic woes at home. Business activity in…
In European Union circles, last week will be remembered for European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s consolidation of her position as the most powerful politician in Brussels. She vanquished her rivals and pitted her new commissioners against each other in a grand reshaping of the bloc’s executive functions, blurring the lines of reportage and…
Egypt’s reported purchase of Chinese fighter jets is a sign of Beijing’s increasing leverage in the Middle East as the region tries to diversify its military procurement to rely less on the United States, analysts have said. According to Bulgarian defence news portal Bulgarian Military, the Egyptian defence ministry reportedly placed its first order for…
India’s overtaking of China in key global gauges will likely usher in a bigger influx of foreign flows, giving equities in the South Asian country another boost. India has overtaken China in the MSCI AC World IMI Index with a 2.35% weighting compared to a 2.24% for the latter, according to a Morgan Stanley report…
Faces don’t get much more expressive than Bernard-Henri Lévy’s. The thick eyebrows go up and down, powered variously by rage, incredulity and sadness; the lips purse, pout and curl with derision. But when the 75-year-old French philosopher describes the scene at what was left of the Kfar Aza kibbutz in southern Israel on October 10…
Text size The French are largely satisfied with the appointment of the centre-right Michel Barnier as prime minister, but believe he will not last long in his new post, a poll said on Sunday. According to the Ifop poll for the Journal du Dimanche, 52 percent of people polled said they were satisfied with the…
His stance on immigration could prove critical in securing at least tacit support from the far right in parliament. Barnier is in the right-wing Republicans party and has in the past proposed “putting a stop to non-European immigration for three to five years,” a stance close to Le Pen’s own. “It’s undeniable that Michel Barnier seems…
NewsFeed More than 100,000 left-wing protesters have marched in French cities to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s appointment of centre-right Michel Barnier as prime minister, despite a leftist bloc winning July’s election. Published On 8 Sep 20248 Sep 2024 Source link