Shorouk Express STRASBOURG — Jordan Bardella said his National Rally party remains against deploying French troops to Ukraine, underscoring the long-term fragility of France’s commitment to Kyiv if the far-right faction wins the presidential elections in 2027. “We are opposed to sending French military troops to Ukraine, like many, many French [people],” Bardella told reporters…
Shorouk Express Across all five countries, the most frequently cited reason for supporting continued aid to Ukraine was the belief that nations should not be allowed to seize territory by force. The most frequently cited argument against additional assistance was concerns about the cost and the pressure on the national economy. “Much of our research…
Shorouk Express Ayan (not her real name) was eight years old when her aunt asked her to go to the living room. Several women were sitting in a circle, waiting for her. “I didn’t know what they were going to do to me,” she says. “They told me to sit down and then my aunts…
Shorouk Express “The Holocaust denial comments relayed by the artificial intelligence Grok on X have been included in the ongoing investigation conducted by the cybercrime division of the Paris public prosecutor’s office, and the functioning of the AI will be analyzed in this context,” the Paris public prosecutor’s office told POLITICO, confirming a report from…
Shorouk Express The 22-year-old Amine is one of the highest-profile crusaders against the narcotics trade in Marseille, the southern port city that for decades has failed to curb drug-related violence. He was profiled in the New York Times last year. Benoît Payan, the center-left mayor of Marseille, struck a similar tone as Darmanin, stating that…
Shorouk Express “There are no spies” in this court, said Camille Di Tella, a lawyer for 28-year-old Kiril Milushev, who said he only agreed to the short Paris trip for recreational purposes and filmed the red handprints while drunk without realizing where he was. Georgi Filipov, 36, who painted the red hands on the memorial’s…
Shorouk Express Lecornu’s first 27 days on the job were brought to a screeching halt Monday, just 14 hours after he named his cabinet. Its composition of mainly Macron allies and a few conservatives infuriated opposition parties and some members of the minority government coalition, making his future untenable. The 39-year-old, who had blamed the…
Shorouk Express The EU’s former Brexit negotiator will sit with members of his party Les Républicains in the National Assembly, in a conservative group that now holds 50 of the French lower house’s 577 seats. As prime minister, Barnier led a minority government backed by Les Républicains and a coalition of parties supporting President Emmanuel…
Shorouk Express “It is always in times of deadlock and tension that our country has moved forward,” he said. “My state of mind is simple: I want neither instability nor immobility.” Lecornu is doing his best to distance himself from the budget cuts that François Bayrou tried and failed to push through the French assembly,…
Shorouk Express “If the question is: Do we have confidence in this government? The answer is no, we don’t,” said Le Pen after meeting with Bayrou Tuesday. Le Pen promised in July to stand in any new elections despite her legal troubles. A National Rally official, who like others quoted in this piece was granted…
