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🇪🇺Ursula von der Leyen Risks EU Majority over Green Claims Directive and Budget Fight
Tensions mount within Von der Leyen’s centrist coalition as backlash grows over the withdrawal of the Green Claims Directive and looming EU budget…
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Julien Hoez
2
🇫🇷French Scandals: Fillon, Guerriau, Terraces
François Fillon condemned to four years prison, Guerriau accused once again, and Paris city hall in fight over terraces
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Julien Hoez
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🇫🇷Charles de Gaulle’s 18 June Appeal: the Spark of the French Resistance
What was the famous 18th June Appeal that forged Charles de Gaulle into a historic leader, and why did it change the course of the war?
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Julien Hoez
5
🇪🇺 Responsibility to Protect at 20: What the EU Must Do to Uphold Human Security
As the UN marks 20 years of the Responsibility to Protect, its latest report urges the EU to close the gap between ideals and action on atrocity…
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Vladan Lausevic
🇬🇱Macron in Greenland: 'Europe Will Not Let the Arctic Be Bought or Taken'
In a landmark visit to Nuuk, the French President pledges solidarity with Greenland and Denmark, defends Arctic sovereignty, and calls for climate…
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Julien Hoez
2
🇫🇷Honour and dishonour
Final call for 2025 survey feedback, Olivier Faure re-elected as PS First Secretary, Macron brings together Israelis and Palestinians, and Sarkozy…
2
🇫🇷No dispatch this week
Taking some much needed R&R
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Julien Hoez
1
🇫🇷Champions, Tariffs, and Macron challenges Xi Jinping
Paris Saint-Germain win Champions League, 'What a week' - Blocks on Tariffs, Catalan and Budapest Pride, Emmanuel Macron challenges Xi Jinping and…
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Julien Hoez
6
What a week - Blocks on Tariffs, Catalan and Budapest Pride
Dave and Julien discuss the messy US Tariff court rulings, the Council blocking Spanish regional languages, Orban's Budapest pride ban, and Von der…
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Julien Hoez
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Dave Keating
1
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🇫🇷COVID Case Dropped as Macron's Centrists Fracture
Philippe, Buzyn & Véran cleared on COVID governance, EU discuss Hungary Article 7 procedure, Fesneau accuses centre of betraying Macronism, Attal…
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Julien Hoez
1
🇪🇺EU Council to Discuss Escalating Article 7 Proceedings Against Hungary Over Rule of Law Breaches
The EU Council will revisit the Article 7 case against Hungary on 27 May, as pressure mounts to uphold the rule of law and possibly suspend Budapest’s…
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Julien Hoez
3
🇬🇧From Surrender to Strategy: the Quiet Return of EU Co-Operation
A subtler Brexit shift is underway, with Starmer eying deeper EU ties and dodging headlines while hardliners howl and Britain edges back towards…
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Peter Beckett
2
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