"‘We fight on’: fears for France’s Sunday paper over editor with far-right ties - Bitter strike at Journal du Dimanche ends with staff exodus – and arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune, a supporter of leading xenophobe Eric Zemmour"

"More than half the journalists at France’s only standalone Sunday newspaper have resigned after failing to prevent the arrival of an editor with far-right ties in a bitter dispute that has fanned fears of a further US-style polarisation of the country’s media.
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"In particular the company refused to contemplate committing not to publish “racist, sexist and homophobic statements and, more generally, any discriminatory or hateful content”, a guarantee the association had demanded given Lejeune’s past record."

“We didn’t win,” said Antoine Malo, a roving foreign correspondent at the Journal du Dimanche (JDD) and member of its editorial association. “We didn’t stop him, and now there’s a mass exodus. But the bigger fight will go on – from outside.”

The mainstream paper’s 100-odd journalists ended a 40-day strike – the longest media strike in France since the 1970s – on Tuesday after Geoffroy Lejeune, previously editor of the far-right weekly Valeurs Actuelles, took up his post as editor-in-chief.

The 34-year-old is a leading supporter of the xenophobic polemicist Eric Zemmour, who ran for the French presidency in 2022, promotes the racist “great replacement” theory, and has been investigated 16 times – and convicted on three occasions – for hate speech."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/06/we-fight-on-fears-for-frances-sunday-paper-over-rightwing-editor-geoffroy-lejeune

#France #FarRight #Xenophobia #Fascism #FrenchPolitics #News #Bias #Racism #Zemmour #Lejeune #JournalDuDimanche #JDD #Homophobia #LGBTQ #Sexism

Gruber on Daring Fireball: “It’s unclear from this article whether the law would simply allow police to try to do this, using security exploits to plant malware on targets’ devices, or if France is going to mandate that all devices include back doors to enable it. Either way, good luck with that. The way the article is written, it’s made to seem that the police have the technical ability to just do this. They don’t.”

#Privacy #Security #France #FrenchPolitics

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/07/06/france-set-to-allow-police-to-spy-through-phones_6044269_7.html

Quelques petits rappels nécessaires #démocratie #tirageausort

RT @alberich: Pas mieux #frenchPolitics #cannes

Pas mieux #frenchPolitics #cannes

French President #EmmanuelMacron, whose populist tactics are derailing his own career, is facing a political crisis unprecedented in contemporary times.

#France #Protests #FrenchPolitics
https://www.pmp-magazine.com/2023/05/19/emmanuel-macron-a-french-president-whose-populist-tactics-are-derailing-his-own-career/

@DrALJONES While they are organized, doesn’t mean they can’t be beat. It also also doesn’t mean that liberals can’t organize themselves for fear of what is actuallly happening in the world right now. Liberals’ motivation is always more hopeful to try and solve problems then the conservative need to punish. #uspol #ukpol #auspol #frenchpolitics #worldnews

Well, this is #capitalism, ergo, this is bad/evil - "#French court approves Macron’s unpopular plan to raise pension age

Constitutional council’s ruling means government can pass law to raise minimum eligible pension age as early as next week"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/14/french-court-approves-macrons-unpopular-plan-to-raise-pension-age

#France #French #FrenchPolitics #Macron #Protests #Pensions

"King Charles France visit could have had echoes of 1789, says ex-ambassador"

"The trappings of a state visit by King Charles amid violent clashes between protesters and police over the changes would have evoked a resemblance with the French Revolution of the 18th century.

The revolt over living standards in comparison to the extravagance of the court of Louis XVI resulted in the monarchy being overthrown, a republic established, and his wife, Marie Antoinette, and others executed.
A police officer in riot gear removes barbed wire near Frontignan oil depot
‘Democracy is broken’: French public divided on pensions and protests
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Lord Ricketts said: “The fact that there are now these violent protests which seem to be growing made, in particular, the idea of a banquet in Versailles a particularly bad idea. That had all kinds of echoes from the past going back to the revolution."

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/25/king-charles-france-visit-1789-echoes-ex-ambassador-lord-ricketts

#France #Protests #Pensions #FrenchRevolution #French #Charles #KingCharles #Royalty #Monarchy #UK #UKPolitics #FrenchPolitics #Macron

French right-wing groups cause embarrassment in Assembly over Directan. #Directan #FrenchPolitics https://www.GPTrending.com/#/?date=2023-03-20&topic=Directan

France and Spain eye contributions to Brazil's Amazon Fund, minister says

#politics #brazil #france #spain #environmentalism #AmazonRainforest #BrazilianPolitics #FrenchPolitics #SpanishPolitics #diplomacy
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/france-spain-eye-contributions-brazils-amazon-fund-minister-says-2023-02-15/ via @Reuters

France minister visits Brazil's Lula amid push for better ties post-Bolsonaro

#politics #brazil #france #BrazilianPolitics #FrenchPolitics #diplomacy
https://www.reuters.com/world/france-minister-visits-brazils-lula-amid-push-better-ties-post-bolsonaro-2023-02-08/ by @AnthonyBoadle via @Reuters

France minister visits Brazil's Lula amid push for better ties post-Bolsonaro

#politics #brazil #france #BrazilianPolitics #FrenchPolitics #diplomacy
https://www.reuters.com/world/france-minister-visits-brazils-lula-amid-push-better-ties-post-bolsonaro-2023-02-08/ by @AnthonyBoadle via @Reuters

Presidents Lula and Macron discuss democracy and the environment

#politics #brazil #france #democracy #environmentalism #diplomacy #BrazilianPolitics #FrenchPolitics
https://en.mercopress.com/2023/01/27/presidents-lula-and-macron-discuss-democracy-and-the-environment via @MercoPressNews

Musk assured European leaders that Twitter will comply with European regulations. However, it is doubtful that he will accept all the constraints of the European rules and that Twitter will have the concrete means to comply with them.

#BirdSite #GDPR #EuropeanPolitics #EU #FrenchLaw #FrenchPolitics

"A French Perspective on Elon Musk’s Twitter" from @flogsell: https://www.lawfareblog.com/french-perspective-elon-musks-twitter

A laudatory profile of @Sandrousseau in the @nytimes by #CatherinePorter https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/09/world/europe/samdrine-rousseai-france-ecofeminist.html #metoo #ecofeminisme #france #feminisme #feminism #ecofeminism #frenchpolitics

Emmanuel Macron and Joe Biden met today to discuss trade and reaffirm a united stance against Russian aggression. While both wish to continue helping Ukraine, the economic costs of such endeavors are continuing to increase. Back in October, House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy stated that his party would not sign any more “blank check[s]” for Ukraine. #breakingnews #worldnews #news #politics #geopolitics #macron #biden #uspolitics #congress #frenchpolitics #ukraine #russia #ruzzia

#Frenchpolitics #MinoritesEthniques

Not mieux !

#pléonasme #redondance #StreetExpression #frenchpolitics

(Vu dans le 11ème)
Des mauvais coucheurs ces parisiens.

#covid19 #covid #frenchpolitics #politique #fRance

Une année de Covid-19 : les sept erreurs du pouvoir

https://www.mediapart.fr/studio/panoramique/une-annee-de-covid-19-les-sept-erreurs-du-pouvoir

#macron #frenchpolitics #onestfoutus