Tag: President of France
COP-28 Summit: PM Modi holds bilateral meetings with Presidents of France, Maldives and Uzbekistan
Dubai [UAE]December 1 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in Dubai on Friday and discussed climate action and climate finance, among other things. The meeting which took place between the two leaders on the sidelines of the COP 28 summit in Dubai also witnessed extensive discussions on sports,…
Live: Sweden confirms Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
Investigators have found traces of explosives at the site of the damaged Nord Stream pipelines, confirming that sabotage had taken place, a Swedish prosecutor said on Friday. Follow our live blog for the latest developments. All times are Paris time (GMT+1) 11:25 a.m.: The Kremlin is saying nothing about the Putin-Biden summit at this time…
French President Macron signed Finland’s NATO membership protocol
President of France Emmanuel Macron has signed the membership protocols on the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO, says the press release from the Élysée Palace. "This sovereign choice of the two European partners, Finland and Sweden, strengthens their security in the face of a real threat in their immediate neighborhood and makes a…
Tuesday’s newspapers: Nuclear power, summer weather and Finland’s rocky road to NATO
According to a recent survey, most Finns are in favor of building a new nuclear power plant. Financial messages reports. The results come from a recent survey commissioned by Uutissuomalainen, TS writes that 55 percent of respondents are in favor of construction and 19 percent are against. In addition, 26 percent said they were insecure…
Reuters: Turkey’s decision unlikely ahead of NATO summit
Negotiations between the Finnish, Swedish and Turkish authorities to resolve Turkey’s objections to NATO’s accession to the two Nordic countries are unlikely to be completed before next month’s NATO summit. report news agency Reuters. Negotiations, which began on Wednesday and ended on Friday, have made little progress and no date has yet been agreed for…
Prime Minister Modi will visit Germany, Denmark, France next week
New Delhi [India]April 27 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pay an official visit to three European countries – Germany, Denmark and France – from May 2-4, the Foreign Ministry (MEA) said on Wednesday. In a statement, the MEA said that this will be the Prime Minister’s first visit abroad in 2022. In Berlin, the…
Haavisto: Every day without an attack is a victory for diplomacy
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland Pekka Haavisto (Green) has said that recent meetings between German and Russian leaders show that continuing tensions in Ukraine could continue to be resolved through diplomatic means. The security situation in the region remains tense, and Western countries have expressed concern about the impending attack on Ukraine as Russia…
Hacked into the phones of Finnish diplomats
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs said on Friday that some of the diplomats working in its Finnish embassies had been subjected to espionage. The ministry did not disclose where the hacking took place. F-Secure Cyber Security Expert Mikko Hyppönen said that this is the first time Pegasus, developed by the Israeli NSO Group, has been…
MeToo, says former Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt. “It can happen to any woman”
Former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has accused Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, President of France between 1974 and 1981, of having eaten at the thigh at a dinner at the French Embassy in Copenhagen in the early 2000s. At the time, D’Estaing was in his late 70s, but still active in politics as president of the…
Thorning: Ex-president took me by the thigh
The episode with the French ex-president was during a dinner at the French embassy in Copenhagen, when Valéry Giscard d’Estaing in 2002-2003 was president of the European Convention, which was to draw up a European constitutional treaty. He was in his late 70s at the time. Helle Thorning-Schmidt was in her 30s, a member of…
Thorning: French ex-president took me on the thigh during dinner
The episode with the French ex-president was during a dinner at the French embassy in Copenhagen, when Valéry Giscard d’Estaing in 2002-2003 was president of the European Convention, which was to draw up a European constitutional treaty. The ex-president was at the time in his late 70s. Helle Thorning-Schmidt was in her 30s, a member…
Unit list: The government must apologize for surveillance
– “With surveillance, freedom increases”, one could hear in the public debate two years ago. Those were words that one would think came from an old Soviet leader or from the American Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg. But the words came on the Folketing’s rostrum, from the Social Democratic Minister of Justice Nick Hækkerup, says Mai…
The President of France has tested positive for covid-19
French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for covid-19, several news agencies state. The president will be isolated for seven days from now. It is not yet known how severely affected he is.
Newspaper editors: We must not let France down in a new caricature crisis
We must stand with the French after a string of attacks recently cost lives and plunged France into a new crisis. This is the message in several editorial columns in Friday’s newspapers. France has been hit by Islamist attacks several times in a month. On Thursday, three people were killed in a church in Nice…
Activists are charged with attempted theft of African cultural heritage
A high-profile trial is under way in France after a group of activists tried to steal African museum objects from the Quai Branly Museum in Paris. In France, five people risk long prison sentences after trying to steal African objects from the Quai Branly Museum in Paris. The group’s leader, Congolese activist Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza,…
Mette F. will meet virtually with Indian Prime Minister Modi on Monday
On Monday, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) will meet virtually with the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi. It informs Indian Foreign Ministry according to the Indian news agency PTI. The meeting will, among other things, strengthen the bilateral partnership, it is said. The two leaders will have the opportunity to set out “a broad…
From Iceland – Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir crowned European Football Champion
Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir, captain of the Icelandic national team in UWCL, has been the newly crowned European football champion after she scored the third and final goal in Spain last night for her French team Lyon, against her old team Wolfsburg, and won Lyon. . Lyon won the final against Wolfsburg 3-1, Sara scored her…
