Macron faces no-confidence votes amid nationwide protests – POLITICO

Macron faces no-confidence votes amid nationwide protests – POLITICO

Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. PARIS — Emmanuel Macron’s government faces several motions of no confidence in the National Assembly Monday after his government forced through a deeply unpopular pensions reform bill last week. Protesters took to the streets in major cities over the weekend, after the government invoked … Read more

Macron pays high price in popularity over pension reform, survey shows – POLITICO

Macron pays high price in popularity over pension reform, survey shows – POLITICO

Emmanuel Macron is paying a high price for his push on pension reform as a survey on Sunday showed the French president is facing a new low in popularity — as low as during the protests of the so-called Yellow Jackets. As the French take to the streets to protest against Macron’s pension reform, 70 … Read more

In France, some protests against increased retirement age turn violent

In France, some protests against increased retirement age turn violent

A smattering of protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise France’s retirement age from 62 to 64 took place Saturday in Paris and beyond, as uncollected garbage continued to reek in the streets of the French capital amid a strike by sanitation workers. Largely non-violent protests were held in various cities, including Nantes and … Read more

Parts of Paris set ablaze amid continuing protests against retirement age increase

Parts of Paris set ablaze amid continuing protests against retirement age increase

Parts of Paris set ablaze amid continuing protests against retirement age increase – CBS News Watch CBS News Protests in Paris have grown violent since French president Emmanuel Macron unilaterally decided to raise the nation’s retirement age from 62 to 64. Michael George has the story. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for … Read more

Macron’s defiant show of force in parliament exposes a weakened president – POLITICO

Macron’s defiant show of force in parliament exposes a weakened president – POLITICO

Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to bypass parliament and impose his deeply unpopular pensions reform has revealed an uncompromising and weakened leader who now faces severe backlash from emboldened opposition lawmakers and protesters. Macron had vowed to abandon his top-down approach to politics and … Read more

Fighter jets coming ASAP, Poland tells Ukraine – POLITICO

Fighter jets coming ASAP, Poland tells Ukraine – POLITICO

Poland will deliver four Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine “in the next few days,” President Andrzej Duda said Thursday. Poland is the first country to formally commit to sending combat planes to Ukraine, which Kyiv says it urgently needs to repel the Russian invasion, which has become a brutal war of attrition in the … Read more

How French pensions revolt could wreck his presidency – POLITICO

How French pensions revolt could wreck his presidency – POLITICO

Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron will face a moment of reckoning Thursday as lawmakers gear up for a final vote on the government’s deeply unpopular pension reform. The controversial bill, a centerpiece of Macron’s second term, has sparked weeks of nationwide protests led … Read more

Toxic Germanity and the battle for ‘das Auto’ – POLITICO

Toxic Germanity and the battle for ‘das Auto’ – POLITICO

Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BERLIN — Europe’s worst-kept secret is that the Germans ultimately decide everything. “I’ll never forget how all the other member states held back in anticipation, waiting to see what the Germans would do,” a senior U.K. official, recalling his time in Brussels, recently told … Read more

Rishi Sunak picks his way through budget minefield – POLITICO

Rishi Sunak picks his way through budget minefield – POLITICO

LONDON — “Better than the last guy” might not be quite the tagline every world leader hopes for. It could yet be Rishi Sunak’s winning formula. The British prime minister, swept into office late last year by wave after wave of Tory psychodrama, has cleared several major hurdles in the space of the past month. … Read more

Online marketplace Wish makes a comeback in France – POLITICO

Online marketplace Wish makes a comeback in France – POLITICO

PARIS — U.S. online marketplace Wish is available in France again at the state’s request, a year and a half after it ordered the platform’s delisting over unsafe products. In November 2021, the government announced with much fanfare that the California-based platform would be removed from search engines and app stores for flouting consumer-protection rules and failing to … Read more