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How the French resilience can reshape Europe
The French electoral earthquake has surprised nobody but the hostile elite who handle our affairs and the presstitute media (to put it in the terms of Mr Craig Roberts) who still try to control the minds in the world. The old country is now under fire as was Austria more than ten years ago. At this time it was fake Gaullist Chirac who conducted the moral crusade against the small continental country....
EU lost its foreign policy sovereignty to US
RT’s Sophie Shevardnadze (L) interviewing Marine Le Pen (R)
The EU has lost control of its foreign policy to Washington, France’s National Front leader Marine Le Pen told RT, calling the bloc’s diplomacy a “catastrophe” in which no independent voice of reason could be heard.
“The European Union’s diplomacy is a catastrophe,” Le Pen told RT’s Sophie Shevardnadze...
Russia needs the support of Marine Le Pen
A hundred years ago, France was one of major world powers. Today, this is a country, to which one can dictate their conditions, on how, for instance, to build relations with Russia. The French can not agree with it – they vote for Marine Le Pen. The leader of the National Front (NF) supports the actions of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, but her reputation in Europe is the one of a “fascist.”
Today,...
French PM shocked by Euro Election Results
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has described the French patriotic and Eurosceptic party’s triumph in the European Parliament elections “a shock” and “an earthquake”.
Valls made the remark on Monday, a day after the EP elections were held in France.
The French prime minister’s ruling Socialist party suffered a humiliating defeat by falling to the third place with 14 percent...
Thousands protest in France against austerity measures
Demonstrators hold a banner that reads “No to the austerity, yes to the social Europe” during a rally in Paris on September 30, 2012.
Thousands of civil servants in France have held a one-day strike over pay and work conditions.
The demonstrators marched in several cities on Thursday to protest against the government’s planned spending cuts.
The strike came after the government last month...
France bans all GMO corn, including Monsanto
France’s lower house of parliament passed a law Tuesday prohibiting genetically modified (GM) maize from being grown, citing environmental concerns. The law can be applied to any GM strain that is adopted at EU level.
The law follows a decree last month, which halted the planting of Monsanto’s insect-resistant maize MON810, which will be allowed for cultivation in the EU, Reuters reported.
But...
France ruling party suffers losses in elections
Volunteers empty a ballot box at a polling station in Belfort, eastern France at the closing of vote in the second round of the French municipal elections on March 30, 2014.
France’s governing Socialist Party has suffered heavy losses in municipal elections, early results indicate.
President Francois Hollande’s party and its allies garnered 42 percent of the votes, while the opposition conservatives...
'StratoBus' drone-satellite hybrid to provide new level of surveillance
A new project of an autonomous airship – a hybrid between a drone and a satellite – has been developed in France. The ‘StratoBus’ dirigible drone will be able to carry out long endurance observation operating at an altitude of about 20 kilometers.
The new breed of autonomous zeppelin has a mission of “observation, security, telecommunications, broadcasting, and navigation,” developers...
France to deploy 400 more troops to Central African Republic
France has said it is planning to reinforce its troops in the Central African Republic (CAR) by sending 400 more soldiers to the former French colony.
French President Francois Hollande’s office said on Friday in a statement that the additional troops would join the 1,600 French soldiers already stationed in the CAR.
The decision was made after a meeting of a top defense committee in the Élysée...
Thousands of French hold anti-Hollande protest in Paris
Thousands of protesters in France have marched through the capital Paris against the country’s President Francois Hollande.
On Sunday, the protesters took to the streets of the city and staged a rally named ‘A Day of Rage’ in order to show their anger at Hollande’s presidency.
According to reports, French security forces fired teargas to disperse the protesters who lobbed police with...
France deploys tanks around presidential palace in Bangui
French troops have deployed tanks around the presidential palace in the capital Bangui shortly after the resignations of the president and the premier of the Central African Republic.
Several French tanks were deployed around the presidential palace and other government buildings across the violence-stricken city on Friday.
This comes hours after both the interim President Michel Djotodia and the...
UAE finds US spy tech in French satellite
The sale of two intelligence satellites to the UAE by France for nearly a billion dollars could go south after they were found to contain American technology designed to intercept data transmitted to the ground station.
The equipment, costing 3.4 billion dirhams ($930 million), constitutes two high-resolution Pleiades-type Falcon Eye military intelligence satellites, which a top UAE defense source...
World's 1st self-regulating artificial heart transplanted in France
Hundreds of thousands of people could soon get off the transplant waiting list as French doctors are celebrating the installation of a revolutionary artificial heart into a 75-year-old patient, paving the way for long-lasting robotic substitutes.
The heart, which spent 25 years in the making and was produced by the French company Carmat, is somewhat of a technological marvel. The key differences with...
France starts deploying troops to north, east CAR
France has begun deploying troops to the north and east of the Central African Republic (CAR) to join an African-led stabilization force in the violence-stricken country.
“The French forces, pre-positioned in Cameroon, have crossed the border and have started reconnaissance missions in the east,” French army spokesman, Gilles Jarron, announced on Saturday.
Jarron further stated that the French...
Iran to attend 2013 Game Connection Europe
Iran’s National Foundation for Computer Games (NFCG) is planning to take part in the exhibition of the 2013 edition of Game Connection Europe.
Iran is slated to unveil 15 newly produced computer game at this year’s European exhibition that will be held in Paris, NFCG announced.
A number of Iranian and international computer game designers and producers will attend the event.
The show also hosts...