Is JD Vance suggesting that immigrants have brought a culture of revolution and protest to France?

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BH5wXOeCGFs

 

How the Global Climate Fiasco Fueled France’s Student Revolt – Mother Jones

Sweltering school conditions—and government’s failure to adapt—helped spawn a political crisis…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/france-student-revolt-riots-school-conditions-extreme-heat-climate-crisis/

 

French government in crisis talks after ‘colossal failure of the state’

Ministers, officials and police under pressure over response to days of violent unrest in cities across France…

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/18/french-government-crisis-talks-violent-unrest-policing-macron

 

Golden, naked Trump statue on display at European Parliament

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XwCXabtpjE0

 

Pentagon excludes key allies from NATO meeting - POLITICO

The planned meeting in Poland, which Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby has spearheaded, is essentially a working group focused on NATO’s future, according to six diplomats familiar with the planning. But many of the countries who didn’t receive an invite — such as the United Kingdom, France and the Baltic countries — are big defense spenders and play key roles in the alliance, leaving their diplomats wondering why they’re being frozen out…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/30/trump-nato-allies-left-out-01100310

 

Macron and Carney announce closer France-Canada ties amid Trump tensions

Two leaders meet in French territory off Canada as Ottawa seeks stronger relations with EU while fighting trade war with US…

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/21/france-canada-relations-eu-europe-macron-carney

 

France and Canada join UK in issuing trade sanctions on Israeli settlements – POLITICO

The Israeli government said it will retaliate by closing the British consulate in Jerusalem...

 https://www.politico.eu/article/france-canada-uk-trade-sanctions-israel-settlements/

 

Former British and French diplomats urge action over Israel’s ‘erasure’ of Palestine

In letter to Macron and Burnham, more than 100 senior figures accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing and call for measures including trade ban… 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/22/uk-france-diplomats-israel-palestine

 

Volunteers save fish from French rivers drying up in heatwaves

The Dive River, at Rom in the western Deux-Sèvres department, is dry, and all that is left of the Mignon further north is a dusty bed. Normally at this time of year, water levels would be between 40cm and 70cm...

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/25/france-rivers-heatwaves-water-levels-drop

 

French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart

The family of Marie-Thérèse, from Brittany, fear for her health after she was cuffed and placed in a detention centre…

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/14/marie-therese-billy-ice-arrest-us-france

 

Rubio plans travel to France to sell Iran war to skeptical G7 allies : NPR

"Areas of focus will include the Russia-Ukraine war, the situation in the Middle East, and threats across the world to peace and stability," the department said in a statement released amid conflicting accounts over whether the U.S. and Iran are talking about a resolution to the conflict...

 https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/g-s1-115053/rubio-plans-travel-to-france-to-sell-iran-war-to-skeptical-g7-allies

Do we want to keep fixing the same issue? Unlearned lessons from the first big oil crisis

As energy prices tripled in the 1970s due to Middle Eastern wars, Scandinavia, France and the Netherlands sped up green transition…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/13/fixing-the-same-issue-first-big-oil-crisis-middle-eastern-wars

 

France blocks US ambassador’s access to officials after he fails to attend meeting

In 2005, Charles Kushner pleaded guilty to 16 counts of tax evasion, making false statements and witness tampering – including hiring a sex worker to seduce his brother-in-law who was testifying against him. 

He spent 14 months in prison before being pardoned by Trump in 2020. Three years later he donated $1m to Trump's Make America Great Again Inc Super Pac...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/23/us-ambassador-to-paris-banned-from-meeting-french-ministers-after-no-show

 

French headquarters of Elon Musk’s X raided by Paris cybercrime unit

The MP, Éric Bothorel, expressed "deep concern" at "recent algorithm changes" and "apparent interference in [X's] management" since Musk bought it in 2022. Other complaints said the changes had led to a surge in "nauseating political content"...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/03/french-headquarters-elon-musk-x-raided-paris-cybercrime-unit

 

French diplomats are taking on MAGA — one meme at a time – POLITICO

PARIS — When a French government account publicly sparred with the White House over Greenland on X, it wasn't a mistake or the work of some rogue diplomat. It was part of a deliberate new strategy by Paris to fight online disinformation from Russia, China and, increasingly, MAGA-aligned voices in the United States...

https://www.politico.eu/article/france-diplomats-memes-fight-maga-era-information-wars-emmanuel-macron/ 

 

France honors soldiers who died in Afghanistan after Trump's false claim about NATO troops | PBS News

A senior French government official said Monday the memory of the French soldiers who died in Afghanistan should not be tarnished following U.S. President Donald Trump's false assertion that troops from non-U.S. NATO countries avoided the front line during that war...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/france-honors-soldiers-who-died-in-afghanistan-after-trumps-false-claim-about-nato-troops 

 

France recognizes Palestinian state after U.S. attempts to quash effort - The Washington Post

Critics of Trump say the event has shown the United States is outnumbered and out-led on an issue gaining increasing prominence amid the climbing death toll in Gaza. The majority of European countries now recognize a Palestinian state.

"The United States is completely isolated, and it really is undermining our influence around the world," Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) said in an interview. "The Biden administration was feckless on this, but the Trump administration is just a complete rubber stamp for Benjamin Netanyahu," the Israeli prime minister.

"Other countries around the world, especially in the Global South, can see American double standards on human rights, and our adversaries are exploiting that," Van Hollen added...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/22/rubio-france-palestine-statehood-un/

Canada to recognise Palestine at UN general assembly, joining France and UK in push for new state

New Zealand and Australia were signatories to a declaration that indicates they could follow suit in the coming months…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/30/palestinian-statehood-recognition

 

‘The American system is being destroyed’: academics on leaving US for ‘scientific asylum’ in France

' "The American system is being destroyed at the moment," he told the 80 reporters who turned up to meet the candidates. "I think a lot of people in the United States and as well as here in Europe have not understood the level to which all of higher education is being targeted."…

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/05/academics-leaving-us-scientific-asylum-france-trump

 

‘A supermarket for sexual predators’: abuse scandal at elite boarding school shakes France

"My mother wanted to get me away from Bordeaux so we begged the Bétharram school principal for a place. To persuade him, I told him about the abuse I'd endured, including the horrible detail that my attacker always handed me an envelope containing 50 French francs [the equivalent of €7, or £6]." 

Six months after Boris was admitted to Bétharram, the same school principal, Pierre Silviet-Carricart, a priest, called him into his office on his 14th birthday and sexually assaulted him, he said. "Then he handed me an envelope containing 50 francs," Boris said. "The cynicism and cruelty of that …"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/01/abuse-scandal-boarding-school-france-betharram