ROME – When Joe Biden met Emmanuel Macron last Friday, there was clarification yet no apology. AUKUS was “clumsy” and “not done with much grace,” Biden said, but that was not entirely a mistake. The plight of AUKUS – the US-led Indo-Pacific strategic alliance that … Read More

BERLIN-German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has a blunt message to her European colleagues: Forget your lofty ideas about the self-defending continent and be real. Kramp-Karrenbauer doubles down with her dismissal of the idea of ​​European strategic autonomy, which sparked a diplomatic outburst with French President … Read More

PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday condemned the killing of dozens of Algerians during a police attack on protests in Paris 60 years ago as “unforgivable” crimes, but he stopped issuing a formal apology for the massacre. “The repression was brutal, violent and … Read More

Tap play to listen to this article During an unfortunate 13-day period, Europe’s dominant political family – the European People’s Party – saw its most experienced leader, Angela Merkel, enter the sunset and its brightest new star, Sebastian Kurz from Austria, crashed to the ground. … Read More

Press play to listen to this article PARIS – The rise of French President-elect Eric Zemmour has been meteoric. He gets far more prime-time TV slots and stories on the front page than many of his rivals. He is also rising in the polls. Last … Read More

France will use its forthcoming EU Council presidency to launch a global campaign to abolish the death penalty, President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday. In a speech commemorating the 40th anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty in France, Macron said Paris would host … Read More

Tap play to listen to this article When Emmanuel Macron became angry at the surprise announcement of a new US-led Indo-Pacific strategy, some officials in Washington might have thought the French president was going to cry a river. But according to U.S. National Security Adviser … Read More

KRANJ, Slovenia-Emmanuel Macron is still not sure that Joe Biden will get it or that the age-old alliance between France and the United States is back on track. Not even three weeks ago, when the US president blinded his French counterpart by announcing a new … Read More

Tap play to listen to this article PARIS – Who remembers that Amazon used to be an online bookstore? France does. In a new twist on the e-commerce giant, French lawmakers this week will examine a draft law that would effectively prevent Amazon from offering … Read More

Tap play to listen to this article SYDNEY – Nearly 10 years ago, Australia thought it was heading for a beautiful friendship with China: It opened its economy to Beijing, wanted to teach Mandarin in schools, and invited the Chinese president to speak to parliament. … Read More