english.almayadeen.net France working to dissolve pro-Palestinian group Urgence Palestine
French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau moves to dissolve Urgence Palestine ahead of May Day protests in Paris.
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Ahead of the May Day protests in Paris, expected to draw around 15,000 participants, French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau announced on the CNews channel on Wednesday that he has initiated the dissolution of Urgence Palestine.
The Palestine Emergency Collective (Urgence Palestine) is a broad coalition comprising citizens, trade unions, political movements, and associations advocating for Palestinian self-determination.
Retailleau justified the move by claiming it was necessary to "hit the Islamists," saying that Islamism is a political ideology that seeks to exploit Islam for power, representing a distortion of Islam's true spiritual teachings.
The French state has a documented history of using group dissolution as a legal tool against Palestine advocacy.
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France @europe.pub tfm @europe.pub Paris Mayor: I want a city with less cars. Perhaps it's controversial, but I think I'm on the right side of history. I had lobbyists from car companies threaten me in my own office.
www.radiofrance.fr Anne Hidalgo dit avoir été "menacée dans son bureau" par des lobbies automobilesLa maire PS de Paris, invitée lundi de franceinfo, a assumé sa politique urbaine visant à diminuer la circulation automobile, malgré dit-elle, les pressions de lobbies.
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www.france24.com Israel cancels visas for 27 French left-wing lawmakers ahead of visitIsrael cancelled visas for 27 French left-wing lawmakers and officials days before their planned Sunday visit to Israel and Palestinian territories, the group said. The move comes days after Israel barred…
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www.theguardian.com ‘They act with total impunity’: Paris city hall declares war on graffiti vandalsOfficials promise to track down and prosecute those who ‘tag’ city’s historic monuments, statues and grand buildings
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France @europe.pub tfm @europe.pub France: How the “war on drugs” is turbo-charging surveillance powers
www.statewatch.org Statewatch | France: How the “war on drugs” is turbo-charging surveillance powersA French law is set to unleash invasive new police surveillance powers. Fuelled by absurd rhetoric, the government is proposing what has been dubbed “the worst surveillance law in the EU”. Experts warn that it will fail to achieve its aims. However, the broad scope of the law means the powers can be...
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www.independent.co.uk Macron ‘to make state visit before Trump’ as UK seeks closer ties with EuropeThe French President is said to have received an invitation from the King to travel to the UK at the end of May, eight years after taking office.
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Emmanuel Macron will be granted a state visit before Donald Trump’s expected trip in September as Britain seeks closer ties with Europe, according to a report.
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www.france24.com ‘Choose Europe!’: Macron invites scientists to work in France amid US funding cutsFrench President Emmanuel Macron on Friday invited international scientists to work in France or elsewhere in Europe. The country's newly launched "Choose France for Science" platform comes as US President…
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France @europe.pub tfm @europe.pub Macron Seeks to Attract Researchers to France in Jab at US
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French President Emmanuel Macron is making a not-so-subtle pitch to lure away US-based researchers who have been affected by Donald Trump’s policies.
“Here in France, research is a priority, innovation is a culture, and science is a boundless horizon. Researchers from around the world, choose France, choose Europe!” Macron said on X on Friday, hours after he hosted US State Secretary Marco Rubio and Trump’s envoy Steven Witkoff to discuss the war in Ukraine, the Middle East and trade.
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www.telegraph.co.uk French energy giant ordered to switch off wind turbines that kill endangered birdsEDF found guilty of ‘destruction of 160 individual bats and birds, in particular lesser kestrels’ at farm in southern France
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In what bird lovers are calling a landmark ruling, the Montpellier court held EDF Renouvelables and nine of its subsidiaries responsible for the deaths of 160 bats and birds, especially lesser kestrels, which regularly collide with the blades despite deterrents put in place by operators.
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France @europe.pub tfm @europe.pub Is Macron striving for a new leadership role for Europe?
cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/6398
Emmanuel Macron is Europe's "point man," and in the absence of a formal German government, he is driving France's vision of Europe amid war to its east and incoming tariffs across the Atlantic.
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www.politico.eu Le Pen’s ‘Save Democracy’ rally after guilty verdict falls short of expectationsThe French far right has framed the verdict against Le Pen as an attack on democracy — but was unable to attract a large crowd to a rally of support on Sunday.
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Marine Le Pen’s political future is cloudy for now, but Sunday’s rally in support of her took place under an impeccably sunny spring sky in an upscale neighborhood of central Paris, with temperatures nearing 20 degrees Celsius.
But despite ideal weather, the crowd didn’t show up.
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www.thelocal.com Inside France: Le Pen, le fraud and the big French cheese filmFrom Marine Le Pen's embezzlement conviction and its impact on France to big changes to the UK's travel rules for dual nationals, via some Marine memes and a very big cheese, Inside France is our weekly newsletter looking at all the latest news and talking points from France.
cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/1953
From Marine Le Pen's embezzlement conviction and its impact on France to big changes to the UK's travel rules for dual nationals, via some Marine memes and a very big cheese, Inside France is our weekly newsletter looking at all the latest news and talking points from France.
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www.publicsenat.fr VIDEO. Quand Marine Le Pen demandait « l’inéligibilité à vie » pour les élus condamnés pour « détournement de fonds publics » - Public SénatAlors que Marine Le Pen vient d’être condamnée pour détournement de fonds publics à quatre ans de prison et à cinq ans d’inéligibilité, l’empêchant de se présenter en 2027, la même Marine Le Pen défendait pourtant, il y a quelques années, la plus grande fermeté contre les élus condamnés. « Quand all...
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www.euronews.com Judge who convicted Le Pen under police protection amid online threatsA torrent of online abuse has been directed at Bénédicte de Perthuis, the judge who presided over the Paris court on Monday.
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Bénédicte de Perthuis, the judge who sentenced Le Pen for embezzling EU funds and barred her from running in France's 2027 presidential election, was placed under police protection on Monday night over alleged death threats she received, domestic press reported.
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France @europe.pub tfm @europe.pub France's Le Pen faces verdict that could end presidential hopes
www.france24.com Le Pen's French presidential hopes in jeopardy as election ban upends 2027 raceA French court on Monday convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from seeking public office for five years, dealing a hammer blow to the far-right leader’s presidential hopes and upending…
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France @europe.pub tfm @europe.pub France slams US 'interference' in firms' diversity programs
www.dw.com France slams US 'interference' in firms' diversity programs – DW – 03/30/2025The criticism comes after the US embassy in Paris warned several French firms against using diversity and inclusion programs, a frequent target of the Trump administration.
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www.newarab.com As France moves to the right, are Algerians being scapegoated?In-depth: Algerians in France fear the right-wing’s tightening hold on power could mean the rise of French "Trumpism" of which they could become top victims.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27863813
France has long tried to balance two contradictory roles with Algeria: a fair-weather friend and a former coloniser that never truly let go. However, as the right wing reshapes the political mainstream in Paris, Algerians in France say they are being scapegoated in the name of 'national security.'
On 8 March, Michel Onfray, a prominent French essayist, declared on CNEWS—a far-right-leaning channel often compared to America’s Fox News—that "the danger in France now is Algerian."
Once confined to the fringes, this rhetoric is now seeping into Matignon (France's 10 Downing Street), with supposedly centrist ministers inching ever closer to the right.
On 24 February, Prime Minister François Bayrou lashed out at Algerian authorities for their "unacceptable" refusal—ten times over—to issue a consular pass for the return of a 37-year-old Algerian national ordered to leave French territory.
Algeria has also refused to acce