Emmanuel Macron

French Navy intercepts sanctioned Russian tanker in Mediterranean

The interception was carried out on high seas in the Western Mediterranean, between the southern coast of Spain and the northern coast of Morocco.

An aerial view shows the oil tanker named Boracay (also called Pushpa), a vessel being investigated by French authorities and suspected of belonging to the so-called "shadow fleet" involved in the Russian oil trade, off the coast of the western France port of Saint-Nazaire, France, October 2, 2025.
French President Emmanuel Macron holds a press conference during a European Union leaders' summit, in Brussels, Belgium December 19, 2025.

France asks for NATO exercise in Greenland, ready to contribute to it, Macron says

Caps with slogans supporting Greenland are on display in a clothing store in Copenhagen, Denmark, January 20, 2026.

Supreme Court decision on baby autopsy, Trump’s Greenland texts under scrutiny

The slogan "Make America Go Away" is stitched on the side of a cap worn by the co-owner of the McKorman clothing store in Copenhagen, Denmark, January 20, 2026.

If Trump invades Greenland 'it would be war,' Danish MP says


Israel will not allow Europe to divide it again - opinion

This isn’t about peace. It’s about Western leaders clinging to outdated ideas, ignoring history, rewarding terror, and playing dangerous games with Jewish lives – again.

 UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) bids farewell to French President Emmanuel Macron following a joint military visit to the Northwood Headquarters Northwood, on July 10, 2025 in London, England.

Macron's push for Palestinian state will prove dangerous for Europe - opinion

US Secretary of State Macro Rubio called Macron’s decision “a slap in the face to the victims of October 7,” noting that “this reckless decision only serves Hamas propaganda.

FRENCH PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron speaks during a video conference with international partners to discuss humanitarian aid for financially-strapped Lebanon, in Paris on December 2.

Macron's choice: Stand with democracy, or allow Frech Jews to become political sacrifices - opinion

The question is not whether France will once again be pro-Israel or pro-Jewish, but whether it can save itself from total collapse into religious, moral, and national darkness.

FRENCH PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron arrives for bilateral talks during a visit to Berlin last week. Following Hamas’s October 7 massacre, France once again chose the wrong side of history, the writer charges.

Israel needs an emergency plan to absorb French Jews after Macron's Palestine recognition - opinion

Macron’s statement to recognise a Palestinian state alarmed France’s Jews, already on edge since Oct 7, driving aliyah interest— but without a proper plan, Israel may miss this rare opportunity.

 France's President Emmanuel Macron, July 10, 2025.

Macron's statement is a blow to peace, danger to Jews - opinion

President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state risks inflaming internal tensions.

A PRO-PALESTINIAN demonstration is held in Paris last month. By singling out Israel, and only Israel, for scrutiny and condemnation, President Emmanuel Macron feeds into an increasingly hostile political climate in France, the writer argues.

Passionate, but lacking legal validity: Rising calls for Palestinian statehood - opinion

'The political existence of the state,' indicates the Convention on the Rights and Duties of States (1934), 'is independent of recognition by the other states.'

France's Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot delivers a speech during the "Paris Call for the Two-State Solution, Peace and Regional Security" gathering influential actors from Israeli and Palestinian civil societies committed to promoting the two-state solution,  June 13, 2025

French official denies claim France held 2020 talks with Hamas with Macron's approval - report

According to a classified document reportedly obtained by Israeli defense officials in Gaza, the first covert meeting took place on October 16, 2020, in Doha, Qatar.

 Hamas terrorists in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. February 20, 2025.

Trump, Starmer to meet in Scotland, with trade and Gaza on agenda

The British leader on Friday said his country would recognize a Palestinian state only as part of a negotiated peace deal.

 BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump meet in the Oval Office earlier this year alongside British Foreign Secretary David Lammy and US Vice President JD Vance.

Ministers gather at UN for meeting on two-state solution, US, Israel boycott

The conference aims to lay out the parameters for a roadmap to a Palestinian state, while ensuring Israel's security.

People rally in front of the United Nations headquarters during a "Stop Starving Gaza Now" protest amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in New York City, US, July 25, 2025.

Perhaps ill-timed but inevitable: French recognition of a Palestinian state - opinion

This is one of the consequences of the Israeli government’s stubborn refusal to consider what comes after the Gaza war.

FRENCH PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron speaks in front of humanitarian aid destined for Gaza, at the Egyptian Red Crescent warehouse in Arish, Egypt, in April. Last Thursday, he announced that France would officially recognize a Palestinian state.