Researchers with the European Council on Foreign Relations polled voting intentions in all 27 European Union countries head of June's elections to the European Parliament and concluded the far-right and populist parties are on course to make major gains which, they forecast, could block Europe’s green deal and harden EU policies on migration, enlargement and support for Ukraine.
A 37-year-old woman farmer was killed and her husband and daughter seriously injured early on Tuesday morning after a car crashed into a roadblock they were manning at Pamiers, south-west France, as part of ongoing protests by French farmers over rising costs, falling income and environmental protection requirements.
The helicopter carrier, transformed into a field hospital with 70 staff, has treated around 1,000 Gazans mostly in oupatient care but also hospitalisations since it arrived in the Egyptian port of al-Arish in November, according to its captain.
A court in the Paris suburb of Bobigny handed the three men suspended sentences for their violent arrest in 2017 of Théodore Luhaka, who has been left incontinent after one of the officers perforated his anus with a telescopic baton.
The four-week ban, beginning on Monday, will apply to all fishing boats longer than eight metres and follows estimates that about 9,000 dolphins are killed each year by being accidentally caught in fishing gear.
Centre-right French President Emmanuel Macron gave a televised press conference of more than two-hours on Tuesday evening, when he attempted to relaunch his troubled second and final term as head of state, which has now been tarnished by a scandal surrounding his new education minister and the arrival in government of controversial former rightwing figures.
France's highest appeal court, the Cour de Cassation, has ruled that Italy's extradition request against Edgardo Greco, wanted in his home country to serve a life sentence for beating two mafia rivals to death with a crowbar at a Calabrian fishmonger in 1991, is unlawful.
Jean-Luc Dubaële, the mayor of Wimereux, a French seaside resort close to where five people died as they attempted to cross the Channel to England at the weekend, said lax British laws were to blame for the large numbers risking their lives to reach the country.
Shortly after Amélie Oudéa-Castéra's appointment last week, Mediapart revealed that Emmanuel Macron's new education minister sent her three children, now aged 13 to 18, to a “reactionary” Catholic private school near her home in Paris. The minister's defence of her actions – she claims her local state school did not properly cover staff absences – went down badly with teaching unions and parents' groups as well as opposition politicians. Her argument has also now been undermined by comments from a teacher at that state school where Amélie Oudéa-Castéra briefly sent one of her children, leading to damaging claims that the new minister has lied.
Newly-appointed foreign minister Stéphane Séjourné met Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Saturday on his first official visit abroad, vowing that Paris would maintain its support.
Emmanuel Macron has replaced his foreign minister but maintained other key figures in their posts, in a reshuffle that also leaves all the top ministries in the hands of men.
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