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jloisse · 1 year
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J’attendais un grand moment d’histoire pour ressortir ce classique et aujourd’hui, ce jour est enfin arrivé
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intersectionalpraxis · 5 months
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While I am glad President Macron is advocating for a ceasefire, but telling PM Netanyahu that they need to "distinguish terrorists from the population" when the IOF has been indiscriminately bombing Gaza for weeks now, has been shooting at civilians/attacking roads and paths that were deemed "safe," and targeting hospitals, refugee camps, holy places, and schools on purpose, killing Palestinian civilians in the 1000s... is just not enough.
Not to mention, on a previous leaflet air-dropped by the IDF, told Palestinian people if they remained, they're essentially terrorists...
Zionists do not give a shit. They're pulling up lawnchairs to watch the IOF bomb Gaza, and are doing these little fucked up Yoga videos to demand their hostages be released -all while they have Iron Dome and the 4th in the world's 'best military defense' protecting them.
I need more politicians to start saying Israel needs to be held accountable in an international tribunal created for them to start legally trying them for their war crimes and genocide.
The ceasefire is a start but the Israeli occupation of Historic Palestine must end.
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bigaldevlin · 2 months
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Fair play Macron, fair play!
Let's hope the rest of the west starts standing their ground some more!
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is-this-working · 2 months
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On my WTF Bingo 2024, I didn't think I'd be cheering on President Macron... But here we are.
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blackswaneuroparedux · 9 months
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Les révolutions ont du moins l'avantage de hâter l'accomplissement des idées admises, mais dont la mise en pratique est difficile ou audacieuse ; elles hâtent l'éclosion de l'avenir paresseux.
Louis-Auguste Martin, L'esprit moral du XIXe siècle (1855)
The Fifth Republic is the name of France’s current government. It began in 1958, after a coup at the hands of the French military in colonial Algeria convinced officials in Paris to dissolve Parliament. Fearing that the military could extend their control beyond Africa, the government called former general Charles de Gaulle out of retirement to hold the country together, as he did during the post-liberation years of World War II. To do so, he crafted a new constitution. Under this government, the president has substantial power, holds a term of five years (it was originally seven) and, following a change to the constitution in 1962, is directly elected by the French people. (de Gaulle held the position until 1968.)
This system of government differs dramatically from previous republics, which relied on parliamentary rule. In the Fifth Republic, the head-of-state appoints a prime minister to lead the Parliament (which is comprised of a Senate and a National Assembly), controls the armed forces and France’s nuclear arsenal, can dissolve Parliament, and can hold referendums on laws or constitutional changes.
One caveat to the president’s powers is the possibility of “cohabitation,” when the president is from a different political party than the majority of politicians in the parliament. In these cases, the president must choose a prime minister who will be accepted by the parliament, and the two share powers of governing more equitably.
But while the conditions are likely not there to bring about a sixth republic in France, the current crisis could lead to other institutional changes.
Indeed, Macron already tried to amend the constitution during his first term, with a plan to add proportional voting to the parliamentary elections and to reduce the number of MPs.
He tried again after the "Yellow Vests" protest, with a reform that would have made it easier for the parliament and citizens to launch a shared referendum, but the law didn't come to fruition.
Will the Fifth Republic last?
French political commentators and scholars have been trying to answer this question since the Fifth Republic was first founded, and it’s impossible to do more than make educated guesses. Since de Gaulle first wrote out its constitution, there have been 24 revisions of it, which have affected 2/3 of its articles. Subsequent changes to the republic have even increased the president’s clout. A 1962 referendum had the president elected by popular vote, and a 2000 referendum resulted in an alignment of the presidential and parliamentary election calendars – something that has almost always resulted in an absolute majority for the president.
So far the constitution’s flexibility and the force of the past presidents has kept the Fifth afloat. But far left agitator and presidential candidate Jen-Luc Mélenchon has been leading a march for the “sixth republic” and Marine Le Pen talking about radically reshaping France’s domestic policies, there’s no telling what might happen by the time Macron leaves office and a new President is ushered in.
Many believe that a certain regime of politics is coming to an end, of which Emmanuel Macron is the epilogue. It is both the end of a regime in the political-institutional sense – hyper-presidentialism and the weakening of counter-powers – but also the exhaustion of a certain regime of "belief" in politics, i.e., the credit we give to men and institutions. It is a symbolic crisis as much as a legal-political one.
I suspect the Fifth Republic will chug along just fine. There may be a few bits of tinkering but not much. I suspect - much like the debates for Proportional Representation in the UK, politicians of all stripes say one thing but do the opposite one in power - once someone like Marine Le Pen comes into power (she is favoured to win the next presidential elections after Macron steps aside) then I doubt she would voluntarily give up her presidential powers any more than any other politician wanting to exercise power to make policy.
At the heart of these debates of changing the Fifth Republic is the very idea of France itself as it faces changes in its society and the challenges therein. In the mind of General de Gaulle, the French presidential system was intended to reaffirm France's independence and sovereignty in the bipolar world of the Cold War. Never have both appeared so threatened.
The decline of state sovereignty is a global phenomenon at the crossroads of several simultaneous revolutions. The first is the history of capitalism, with the financialisation and globalisation of markets and the new supranational actors that are the multinationals. The second is the institutional history of Europe, with the construction of Europe, which is deconstructing the nation-states of which it is composed. The third is the history of information and communication technologies with the emergence of the GAFA [Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon] and the new authoritarian algorithmic governance that is being imposed on States and citizens. And finally there is the strategic history of Europe with the end of the Cold War and the integration of France into the Western bloc under the aegis of NATO.
Any of these would be challenging for the nation state, but all five at once is enough to make any stable democracy shudder at the foundations.
Photo: President Emmanuel Macron presides over the fête nationale ceremony on the Champs-Elysées, 14 July 2023.
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royalpain16 · 7 months
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President Emmanuel Macron and wife Brigitte Macron with King Charles III and Queen Camilla
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head-post · 16 days
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Macron acknowledged France’s unwillingness to prevent massacre of 800,000 people
French President Emmanuel Macron has made a major admission about France’s involvement in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, saying France and its allies “could have stopped” the genocide but they “lacked the will to do so.”
In a video to be posted on social media on Sunday, Macron admits that France failed to act decisively during one of the darkest periods in Rwanda’s history. He argues that France, along with its Western and African allies, had the opportunity to intervene and prevent the genocide, but ultimately failed to do so due to a lack of resolve.
Macron’s statement comes as Rwanda marks the 30th anniversary of the genocide. The recognition marks a significant shift in France’s position on its role in the genocide. Macron’s confession follows his visit to Rwanda in 2021, during which he acknowledged France’s “responsibility” for the genocide.
In 1994, a plane carrying the country’s president Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundi’s leader Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down by unknown assailants in Rwanda. Hutu extremists used their deaths as a pretext to seize power in Rwanda and to launch a genocide of the Tutsi ethnic group and moderate Hutu politicians. The majority of the 800,000 dead were of this ethnic group.
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anaismus · 2 years
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Putin: dies
Macron, who has not spoken to him for several hours:
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jloisse · 22 days
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Un bon montage sur Macron 😁
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astronomyofwords · 1 year
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i really love how determinate macron is to destroy our exams
we have our exams on monday, the government don't care about us, took decisions on tuesday for the friday and don't seems to realise that every student hates him right now
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aembarcar · 10 months
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Elle avait en France un statut spécial et, dans le cœur des Français, une place singulière. Nul autre souverain étranger n’avait gravi le perron de l’Élysée plus souvent qu’elle, qui fit à la France l’honneur de six visites d’État, et rencontra chacun de ses présidents. Le français était pour elle, non seulement une ancestrale rémanence normande conservée en maints usages, mais une langue intime et chère. La reine aux seize royaumes aimait la France, qui le lui rendait bien. Le peuple britannique, l’ensemble des pays du Commonwealth ce soir pleurent la reine. Le peuple français aussi porte son deuil.
Celle qui côtoya les géants du XXe siècle sur le chemin de l’histoire s’en est allée les rejoindre. La République et le peuple français adressent à Sa Majesté le Roi, à la famille royale, au gouvernement de Sa Majesté et au peuple britannique le témoignage de son amitié séculaire et de sa tristesse.**
- Emmanuel Macron, Président de la République française.
President Macron went to the British Embassy in Paris to sign the condolence book and share his thoughts on the death of HM Queen Elizabeth II. France was the one European country the Queen visited the most during her reign since she spoke French fluently and loved its culture and its arts. President Macron acknowledged this and gave thanks for her interest in his nation by giving his remarks (in english). It was a touching gesture.
**She held a special status in France and a special place in the hearts of the French people. No foreign sovereign has climbed the stairs of the Élysée Palace more often than she, who honoured France with six state visits and met each of its presidents. For her, French was not a mere relic of Norman ancestry that persisted in so many customs, but an intimate, cherished language. The Queen of sixteen kingdoms loved France, which loved her back. This evening, the people of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth are mourning their Queen. The people of France join them in their grief. She who stood with the giants of the twentieth century on the path of history has now left to join them. The French Republic and the people of France extend their long-standing friendship and deep sorrow to His Majesty the King, to the Royal Family, to His Majesty’s Government and to the British people.
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agentfascinateur · 10 months
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Radicalizing police corps by way of paramilitary training is leading to riots by creating trigger-happy cops. Rethink civic order. People shouldn't die for minor offenses.
"No-one disputes that refusing to stop at a traffic control is a serious offence, and that it happens too frequently. But on 13 occasions last year occupants of cars in such situations were shot dead by French police. That strongly suggests something is wrong."
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royalpain16 · 10 months
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Watch "Watch live: President Emmanuel Macron addresses armed forces in Paris ahead of Bastille Day" on YouTube
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theboyfromipanema · 2 years
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Paris - A cidade do amor
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ebookporn · 1 year
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Met police criticised for using anti-terror laws to arrest French publisher on way to London Book Fair
Protests held after Ernest Moret apparently told alleged involvement in demonstrations against Emmanuel Macron’s pension age reform was behind detention at St Pancras
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by Josh Salisbury
A leading French publisher has been bailed after anti-terror laws were used to arrest him as he arrived in London.
Ernest Moret, a foreign rights manager with French publisher Editions La Fabrique, was stopped by officers at St Pancras on Monday.
He had been on his way to the London Book Fair at Kensington Olympia, which is scheduled to include an address by the Ukrainian president’s wife, Olena Zelenska.
According to a joint statement released by his publisher and left-wing book publisher, Verso Books, Mr Moret was stopped by police under counter-terror laws on Monday at St Pancras to “determine whether he was engaged in terrorist acts or in possession of material for use in terrorism”.
His employer claimed he was stopped over his alleged involvement in French pension age protests. They also alleged that he was then arrested after refusing to give up passcodes to his phone.
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