Emmanuel Macron

Von der Leyen and Merz urge caution amid Macron’s tougher stance against Washington

World leaders are trying to find the right dose of flattery and tact in their relationship with the Republican to avoid getting on his bad side

Ahead of a key summit in The Hague next week, Secretary General Mark Rutte sent a letter to alliance members setting out the new spending threshold, which mirrors Trump’s demands

The US president says he has located Khamenei and calls him ‘an easy target,’ while deploying more fighter jets to the region

The government is considering building high-security prisons and establishing jails overseas as a solution to a saturated system that is failing to address rising crime

Spain, France and Belgium are calling for greater forcefulness after the review of the framework governing bilateral relations was approved

Defined as a shrewd and ambitious man, the leader of the Arab country has combined a firm hand with openness since bringing down the Assad regime

The grieving process for the possible loss of Washington’s protective power has begun. ‘Our interest is to keep the Americans in Europe,’ says a prominent Christian Democrat

Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Emmanuel Macron, and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are some of the heads of state expected to attend the solemn ceremony

Germany, Poland, and Lithuania have expressed interest in a French nuclear umbrella amid concerns about US protection

Well known for his role as the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, the veteran politician urges Europe not to panic and to stand firm against threats from a US president who is ‘surrounded by billionaires and speculators’

The National Assembly has approved a law that makes it easier to get a license to open a bar in communities with fewer than 3,500 residents and no local businesses

A European diplomatic communication indicates that London and Paris are pushing for a military deployment to test their strength as the US progressively steps back

The Ukrainian president offers first steps towards a ceasefire and calls on Trump to lead the peace process

The tech magnate describes failure to respond to a request he was not authorized to make as ‘incompetence’ as Donald Trump stirs up conspiracy theories

The French president’s visit to Washington is part of European efforts to prevent an agreement that would be detrimental to Kyiv

The discomfort shown by Giorgia Meloni, who made explicit her closeness to the US, reflects the difficulty of the community partners in finding a common strategy

US State Secretary Marco Rubio, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and others gathered in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday as a prelude to a future one-on-one between Trump and Putin. The exclusion of representatives from Kyiv and Brussels has raised mistrust about the content of the negotiations

For some, a secular state is the foundation of an open society, which allows both faith and blasphemy. For others, secularism is an excuse to justify Islamophobia. The Islamist attacks of 2015 left a wound in French society that has opened up a debate on the idea of laïcité

Brussels is venturing into uncharted territory in its confrontation with the head of the platform formerly known as Twitter, which is already facing an open case that could result in a fine of more than $190 million

The leader of France’s far-right National Rally, facing a court sentence that could ban her from seeking public office, warns in an interview with EL PAÍS that she will seek a no-confidence vote against the government again if the newly appointed prime minister ignores her party’s demands

A wave of sovereignty and the emergence of new actors such as Russia, China, and Turkey have pushed Paris out from its main zone of influence in the Sahel

The president-elect is already acting as if he is in power, a month and a half before officially taking office, while Joe Biden continues to fade into the background

The head of La France Insoumise says they will keep using no-confidence votes against the French president, whom he accuses of ignoring the result of the election and of sinking the country into crisis

The historian and member of the Resistance, who was executed by the Nazis in 1944, will become one of the illustrious figures inducted into France’s Pantheón

The pact between the two blocs will have to overcome the obstacles to ratification, which will come mainly from France