Mexico threatened to translate Google into court on Monday, February 17, if the American company does not withdraw from its cards the name “Gulf of America”. A mention that has replaced the “Gulf of Mexico” for American users since the end of January, according to a requirement by Donald Trump. This episode recalls others. The … Read more
Donald Trump continued on Tuesday to put forward the idea of a vast territorial expansion of the United States, without it being possible to say whether these are serious projects or provocations intended to extract economic or political concessions. He made economic threats against Canada, and refused to rule out the military option for the … Read more
The humiliation of the hostages in Iran will remain a stain on the record of Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100, but the former American president reached the first Israeli-Arab peace agreement, one of the successes of his foreign policy long criticized for its supposed weakness. By the own admission of … Read more
American President-elect Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Paris on Saturday to attend the reopening of Notre-Dame, an event on the sidelines of which an intense diplomatic sequence will take place under the auspices of Emmanuel Macron. The ceremony marking the rebirth of the Parisian Gothic building after the 2019 fire … Read more
“The Pope should come” in Corsica on December 15, but “there are some administrative and diplomatic adjustments” before the official confirmation of this visit, announced Thursday November 21 during a press conference Cardinal François-Xavier Bustillo, Bishop of Ajaccio. As for the Vatican, no official visit has yet been announced. “I can tell you that the … Read more
Qatar has withdrawn its mediation between Israel and Palestinian Hamas after months of unsuccessful efforts to end the devastating war in the Gaza Strip, a diplomatic source said on Saturday. He also indicated that the political office of the Islamist movement in Doha “no longer has any reason to exist”added the same source, without explicitly … Read more
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, did not appreciate this and made it known publicly. Thursday, November 7, while traveling in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, he clashed with Israeli police officers at Eléona, a sanctuary located in Jerusalem–East, at the top of the Mount of Olives, and under the protection of France. … Read more
Can we criticize a « ami »or even express your disagreement with his actions, without risking triggering his wrath? And if so, is there a better time than another to do it? Emmanuel Macron had probably weighed these options before making the remarks broadcast on Saturday October 5 on France Inter, and recorded four days … Read more