The Latest Breaking News from Emmanuel Macron

Crunch Time For EU-Mercosur Deal At Rio Summit

The fate of a long-awaited but controversial Europe-South America trade deal hangs in the balance this week when Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hosts a summit of the Mercosur regional bloc.

International Business Times · Dec 5, 2023

Can Israel go it alone? Gaza war intensifies despite international pressure

If the objective is the total destruction of Hamas, then "the war will last 10 years". That warning from France's president follows the collapse of a seven-day truce between Israel and Hamas. After an Act I that reduced huge swathes of northern Gaza to rubble, how long will Act II…

France 24 · Dec 4, 2023

Emmanuel Macron says Israel must define more precisely its Gaza aims

French president says there is no lasting security for Israel if it comes at the cost of Palestinian lives

The Guardian - UK · Dec 4, 2023

IDF claims to have found 800 tunnel shafts – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU · Dec 3, 2023

French prosecutors open probe into ‘terrorist plot’ after deadly Paris knife attack

A man known to French authorities for radical Islamism and mental health troubles stabbed a tourist to death and wounded two other people in central Paris late Saturday night before being arrested, with prosecutors opening an investigation into a "terrorist plot".

France 24 · Dec 3, 2023

Israel pulls Mossad negotiators from Qatar after ‘impasse’ over captives

Hamas says there will be no further prisoner exchange with Israel until the war on Gaza is over.

Al Jazeera · Dec 2, 2023

France's Macron says he's going to Qatar to work on new Gaza truce

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday that France was "very concerned" by the resumption of violence in Gaza and that he was heading to Qatar to help in efforts to kickstart a new truce ahead of a ceasefire.

Radio France Internationale · Dec 2, 2023

As antisemitism soars, for many Jews in France nowhere feels safe

Macron is calling for unity, but the Israel-Hamas war has sparked a rise in hate crime that threatens a fragile social peace, says Paul Taylor of the Friends of Europe thinktank

The Guardian - UK · Dec 2, 2023

Developing nations press rich world to better fight climate change at U.N. climate summit

Leaders of developing nations jumped into Saturday’s second-day of a U.N. climate summit to press rich industrialized countries to share their knowhow to fight global warming and ease the financial burdens they face — while trumpeting their own natural resources that swallow heat-trapping carbon in the air

The Independent UK · Dec 2, 2023

UN atomic chief backs nuclear power at COP28 as world reckons with proliferation

The world wants more nuclear energy as a means to fight climate change and supply an ever-growing demand for electricity, part of a generational shift in thinking on atomic power

The Independent UK · Nov 30, 2023