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      Macron calls proposed EU-Mercosur trade pact ‘very bad deal’ lacking strong climate commitments

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 01:16

    French president tells Brazil forum both parties need to be ‘much stronger’ on biodiversity and climate

    Emmanuel Macron has called a proposed trade agreement between the EU and South America’s Mercosur bloc a “very bad deal” that lacks proper climate considerations.

    “As it is negotiated today, it is a very bad deal, for you and for us,” the French president told Brazilian businessmen in São Paulo on Wednesday while on a three-day trip to Brazil, Latin America’s largest economy.

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      Photos of Macron boxing raise eyebrows in France after he comes out swinging against Putin

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 7 days ago - 04:38

    President sparks social media buzz as users ask whether he is getting ready to take on Vladimir Putin after images posted to Instagram

    The release of official photos showing Emmanuel Macron hitting a punching bag have been met with a mixture of praise and consternation in France.

    The photos of the French president, posted on Instagram on Tuesday by his official photographer, Soazig de la Moissonnière, are coloured in moody black and white, and show the president with teeth gritted and biceps bulging as he works out.

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      The pope’s white flag was pitiful, but just how will the war in Ukraine end? | Simon Tisdall

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 16 March - 16:00

    A ceasefire on Russia’s terms would embolden Putin to pick new targets for his expansionist aims

    Pope Francis’s suggestion that Ukraine’s leaders should admit defeat, find “the courage to raise the white flag” and negotiate a halt to the war with Russia provoked justified fury in Kyiv and eastern Europe. He was wrong to say Ukraine is beaten, and gravely remiss in failing to condemn Moscow’s illegal aggression and war crimes. Yet Francis is not alone in wondering how this conflict ends.

    Two years on, there’s no sign of a winner. Maybe that’s just as well, in the sense that outright victory for either side could be disastrous for all. Does this unheroic consideration tacitly influence the cautious approach of Kyiv’s two biggest western backers, the US and Germany? If so, it makes the absence of a credible peace process all the more regrettable – and potentially very dangerous.

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      Russia-Ukraine war: Russia claims to have thwarted Ukrainian raid on Belgorod as Russian presidential vote begins – live

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 15 March - 08:57

    Three days of voting begin in Russia and occupied regions of Ukraine amid claims Russia repelled attempt to land Ukrainian troops in Belgorod

    Reuters notes that more than 114 million Russians are eligible to vote, including in what Moscow prefers to call its “new territories” – the four regions of Ukraine that it has claimed to annexed but which its forces only partly control. Ukraine says the staging of elections there is illegal.

    As a reminder, Vladimir Putin is not the only candidate. He is running against Communist Nikolai Kharitonov , Leonid Slutsky , leader of the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party, and Vladislav Davankov of the New People party.

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      Jean-Michel Trogneux : l’extrême droite US fait revivre une vieille théorie du complot sur Brigitte Macron

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Tuesday, 12 March - 17:35

    Une théorie du complot, clamant que Brigitte Macron serait une personne trans, est partagée par des personnalités de l'alt-right américaine. La fake news, qui date de 2021 en France, fait son retour à quelques mois des élections américaines et européennes.

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      Macron announces assisted dying bill to go before French parliament in May

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 11 March - 12:59


    President says new law would open possibility of requesting assistance in dying under certain strict conditions

    Emmanuel Macron has said a bill on assisted dying has been drafted and will go before the French parliament in May.

    The legislation would enable doctors to prescribe a lethal substance to those in full control of their faculties but suffering incurable illnesses whose pain cannot be relieved.

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      Germany’s reputation for decisive leadership is in tatters when Europe needs it most | Simon Tisdall

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 9 March - 17:01

    Olaf Scholz’s endless dithering over Ukraine is playing into Putin’s hands

    National stereotypes are unfair, insulting – and strangely reassuring. It’s somehow good to know in an unpredictable, fast-changing world that Italians may be relied upon to be melodramatic, the French rude, the Americans loud and the English drunk. When nations act out of character, and refuse to conform to type, it feels a little disconcerting.

    This seems to be what’s happening in Germany today as Europe looks on, perplexed. What has become of that hackneyed Teutonic efficiency, decisiveness, reliability and steely-eyed determination? The past victors of countless poolside deckchair skirmishes now flirt with chaos in ways that make Westeros look well ordered.

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      Macron says battle for abortion rights is not over as France updates constitution

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 8 March - 12:50

    President says France ‘will not rest until promise is kept throughout world’, as it becomes first to explicitly protect rights

    In an emotional ceremony marking the enshrining of the right to an abortion in the French constitution, Emmanuel Macron said the historic change was the sealing of a long battle for “freedom, a fight made up of tears, tragedies and broken destinies”.

    He said the occasion was a reminder of “the fate of generations of women deprived of the most intimate of choices: whether or not to have a child”.

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      France demands investigation after 112 Palestinians killed during aid delivery

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 1 March - 11:30

    Emmanuel Macron says civilians were ‘targeted by Israeli soldiers’ as they gathered to get food from trucks in Gaza

    France has called for an independent investigation into the deaths of more than 100 Palestinians in Gaza who had gathered around aid trucks delivering food on Thursday.

    Emmanuel Macron, the French president, said civilians had been “targeted by Israeli soldiers” and called for an immediate ceasefire.

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