French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Edouard Philippe’s approval ratings hit new lows as the “yellow vest” protests gathered pace, according to an Ifop-Fiducial poll for Paris Match and Sud Radio published on Tuesday. Macron’s approval rating fell to 23 percent in the poll conducted late last week, down six points on the previous […]

France is the leader of the contemporary revolutions, so long as the term “revolution”, in its new meaning, came to political culture largely through the successive French revolutions of the late eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century. Gilet jaune, translated as the Yellow vests movement, refers to the high-visibility jackets that protesters […]

French President Emmanuel Macron continues to play an invisible, but uninterrupted game on the U.S. ground. In August 2017, an agreement was reached between the presidents of France and the United States on “changing the content of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action”. The changes were supposed to cover the four controversial issues (the removal […]

Referring to Europe financial and geopolitical dependence on Washington Anthony Cartalucci says it is difficult to take what Macron says about Europe military independence seriously. Washington’s move to distance itself from the NATO military alliance and its withdrawal from international agreements has thrown light on the urgent need for Europe to take its defense and […]

 The French president Emmanuel Macron criticized US President Donald Trump’s “aggressive” isolationism, calling on EU to defend itself against US extraterritorial sanctions. “Multilateralism is going through a major crisis which collides with all our diplomatic activities, above all because of US policy,” he told a gathering of French ambassadors on Monday. According to Reuters, Macron urged […]

France has been one of the main motivators of Trump’s pullout from the nuclear deal. If the young French president had not supported calls by Trump to change the content of the nuclear accord, today we would not have faced the current situation. French politicians will continue to play their double standard approach toward the […]

The most damaging scandal of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency deepened on Saturday with his interior minister due to face a grilling in parliament over his response to a top security aide of Mr. Macron caught on video beating up a young man at a Paris protest in May. Opposition lawmakers have demanded that Mr. Macron, who […]

 French President Emmanuel Macron says in a new interview with a leading German newspaper that the US withdrawing from the Iran nuclear agreement could lead to war with the country, The Hill reported. The French leader tells Der Spiegel that President Trump’s threats to abandon the Obama-era deal aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear weapons program could open “Pandora’s […]

 Élysée Palace announced that French President Emmanuel Macron called his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on Sunday to exchange views on Syrian crisis. During a phone conversation on Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron called on his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani to put the “necessary pressure” on the Syrian government to halt what the French president claimed […]

Foreign Policy Commentator, Hanif Ghaffari, is touching upon the approach undertaken by the French in regards with Iran nuclear agreement of 2015. Conservative French leaders along with their American counterparts are lining up to make new demands on the Iran nuclear deal. Not to be outdone by the irrational mandates of Donald Trump, French President […]