Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz and Europe
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On Thursday, the French president celebrated Europe's most powerful rocket launch after it successfully deployed 32 Amazon.com Inc. AMZN Leo satellites into orbit, as Jeff Bezos steps up his challenge to SpaceX's Starlink.
French President Emmanuel Macron has said that European leaders must be present at the talks on Ukraine. Otherwise, he believes, they will not bring peace. The Guardian reports The Guardian.
President Emmanuel Macron Friday denounced what he described as an "antisemitic hydra" that had crept into "every crack" of society two decades after Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old French Jewish man, was tortured to death.
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By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS, Feb 13 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron called for intensified efforts to combat antisemitism in France, as recent government data showed hostility toward Jews has remained high despite a decline in recorded incidents last year.
President Emmanuel Macron proposed 'mandatory election bans' for officials convicted of antisemitic or racist acts and remarks, while speaking at a tribute to Ilan Halimi, a Jewish man who was kidnapped and tortured to death in 2006.
French President Emmanuel Macron believes that Europe must once again speak directly with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in the effort to find a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine war. Macron said in
E UROPE IS facing a “geopolitical and geo-economic state of emergency”, declares Emmanuel Macron. If the continent does not invest in its economy and lift barriers to growth more quickly, it will be “swept aside” by technology from America and imports from China.
The EU should not be lulled into a false sense of security that tensions with the US over Greenland, technology and trade are over, French President Emmanuel Macron has warned, as he called on the bloc to embark on an “economic revolution” and finally become a true global power.
Macron held a tree-planting ceremony to commemorate 20 years since the death of Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Jewish man who died after being kidnapped and held captive for 24 days.
In many respects the EU is heading Mr Macron’s way. SAFE, the union’s new joint defence-procurement scheme, mandates (at French insistence) that at least 65% of the components of many systems it pays for must come from countries that are members of the EU or have association agreements with it.
France's President Emmanuel Macron defended Europe as "inherently strong" at the Munich Security Conference, adding that it "has to learn to become a geopolitical power".