The new alliance plans to raise the monthly minimum wage to €1,600, impose price ceilings on essential foods, electricity, gas and petrol, repeal Macron’s deeply unpopular decision to raise the retirement age to 64 and invest massively in the green transition and public services.
The citizens of Amiens, the northern city where Emmanuel Macron famously spent his youth, do not appear to be particularly enamoured of its most famous son.
Rebuke for breaking European Union rules that require strict financial discipline comes two weeks before French voters head to the polls for parliamentary elections.
Former French socialist president François Hollande, 69, has announced he will stand in snap general elections for the leftwing coalition, the New Popular Front, in his political fiefdom of Tulle, south-west France.
Following comments at a press conference by the France national football team forward Marcus Thuram, who urged people in France to "fight daily" to prevent the far-right from gaining power in snap elections called by Emmanuel Macron, the French football federation has asked the media not to ask questions about political affairs during the Euro 2024 competition being played in Germany.
The socialists, communists, radical-left and greeens have formed a coalition 'New Popular Front', a reference to the 1936-1938 alliance of the Left, and will field candidates in all 577 parliamentary constituencies in the snap elections called by Emmanuel Macron for June 30th and July 7th, when the far-right hopes to gain an absolute majority in the National Assembly.
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Le journaliste français est mort vendredi 3 octobre en Ukraine, victime d’un tir de drone. Il couvrait cette guerre depuis le début de l’invasion russe et avait collaboré avec Mediapart à de nombreuses reprises.
