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Taiwanese national flags fly in Taipei. (Photo by Mandy Cheng/AFP via Getty Images)
French Lawmakers Head to Taiwan in Show of Support After Macron’s Controversial Remarks
April 19, 2023 | 7:25pm EDT
French President Emmanuel Macron and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte at a press conference in Amsterdam on Wednesday. (Photo by Ludovic Marin / AFP via Getty Images)
Macron Defends Remarks on EU, China and the US: Europeans ‘Have The Right to Think For Ourselves’
April 12, 2023 | 6:44pm EDT
French President Emmanuel Macron hosts European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in Paris this week, ahead of their joint trip to China beginning on Wednesday. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)
Macron Heads to China, With Ukraine, Business on the Agenda
April 4, 2023 | 7:14pm EDT
A Ukrainian protestor attends a demonstration in Tbilisi, Georgia this week against Russian and Belarusian participation in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. (Photo by Vano Shlamov / AFP via Getty Images)
IOC Still Grappling With Thorny Issue of Russian, Belarusian Participation in 2024 Paris Olympics
March 28, 2023 | 6:44pm EDT
Striking French railway workers in the city of Lyon on Wednesday hold a banner reading “until the withdrawal,” referring to their demand that the government abandon its pension reform plans. (Photo by Jeff Pachoud / AFP via Getty Images)
Macron Struggles to Justify Pension Reforms Amid Protests After Narrowly Surviving No-Confidence Vote
March 22, 2023 | 4:39pm EDT
A nuclear power plant in southwestern France. (Photo by Matthieu Rondel / AFP via Getty Images)
French Lawmakers Debate Bill to Ease Building of Reactors, Amid Rising Support For Nuclear Energy
March 14, 2023 | 8:21pm EDT
Tunisian President Kais Saied. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)
World Bank Suspends Parnership With Tunisia After President’s Remarks About Sub-Saharan African Migrants
March 7, 2023 | 4:59pm EST
French President Emmanuel Macron and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Paris in 2019. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)
Macron To Visit China to Try to Push For an End the Ukraine-Russia War
February 27, 2023 | 8:50pm EST
French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Elysee palace in Paris in 2019. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)
Moscow and Kyiv Both Unhappy With Macron’s Remark That Russia Must Lose the War But Not Be ‘Crushed’
February 21, 2023 | 4:30pm EST
Then-French President Jacques Chirac and Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2006, the year Chirac awarded Putin the Légion d'Honneur. (Photo by Dmitri Astakhov / AFP via Getty Images)
Macron Mulls Stripping Putin of France’s Highest Order of Merit – At ‘The Right Moment’
February 14, 2023 | 5:02pm EST