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...Macron’s reforming zeal, first as economy minister under President François Hollande and then in the Elysée palace, has focused on tax cuts and business-friendly moves to boost growth and attract foreign...
...Additional reporting by Javier Espinoza in Brussels and Leila Abboud in Paris...
...For François Heisbourg, a European security analyst, this week encapsulated all that has gone wrong with Macron on foreign policy since the war in Ukraine upended the global security order....
...“Rail workers are no longer willing to make sacrifices for what the government says is the greater good,” said François-Xavier Arouls, a leader of the Solidaires union at RATP, the Paris region’s public...
...It was only the latest sign that Macron, once a minister for Socialist President François Hollande, has completed a gradual but significant shift to the right....
...“We have come to the end of a period marked by difficult reforms: there is inevitably a new period opening,” François Bayrou, a centrist politician whose Modem party is allied with Macron, said on Sunday...
...In Annecy, a medieval town on a lake surrounded by mountains, there are four times as many short-term rentals in the old town today compared with five years ago, said mayor François Astorg....
...Later educated at Sciences Po university, Attal went into politics early, joining the Socialist party at age 17 and working as a speechwriter for the health minister in the government of François Hollande...
...Macron studied there, as did previous presidents François Hollande and Jacques Chirac and multiple prime ministers. The director of the school is named by presidential decree....
...The comments set off a firestorm of criticism, including from Macron’s predecessor, the former president François Hollande....
...Several presidents, including François Hollande and Macron himself, have considered abolishing it, and a recent conference of experts aimed at reforming judicial institutions called for it to be scrapped...
...year-old French man who was arrested after police intervened with tasers, had pledged allegiance to Islamic State in a video on social media before the attack, the public prosecutor for anti-terrorism Jean-François...
...François Patriat, a veteran senator who is closely allied with the president, admits that handing over the keys to the Élysée Palace to Le Pen would be a “nightmare” for Macron....
...Speaking on Friday evening, anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard said the investigation was ongoing and that “multiple people have been arrested”....
...One of Macron’s allies, the centrist politician François Bayrou, will go on trial in October on charges regarding parliamentary assistants for the MoDem party....
...Gucci CEO Marco Bizzarri will step down in September and be replaced on a temporary basis by the chief operating officer Jean-François Palus....
...Gucci chief Marco Bizzarri will step down in September and be replaced temporarily by chief operating officer Jean-François Palus....
...One Tory official reflected that Ed Miliband, former Labour leader, met France’s then-president François Hollande in 2012....
...Hubert Védrine, a former foreign minister and top Élysée Palace official under François Mitterrand, said in an interview that France had made a mistake in the past decade, albeit a well-intentioned one,...
...The moves unveiled by chair and chief executive François-Henri Pinault on Tuesday are part of an effort to give a new direction to the group that in recent years has struggled to deliver growth at the pace...
..., a number of high-profile politicians are facing charges in separate trials this week, casting a light on a judicial system that has historically struggled to hold public officials accountable, writes Leila...
...He joined the administration under Socialist president François Mitterrand, where he masterminded reforms designed to liberalise France’s financial markets. His intellectual abilities impressed many....
...Additional reporting by Leila Abboud in Paris and Eleni Varvitsioti in Athens...
...The pair have known each other since 2012 when Macron was a young staffer on François Hollande’s presidential campaign....
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