First things first: theirs is not a common relationship. That is paraphrased from words Mr Macron himself said on the couple’s wedding day: that they were “not quite common, a couple not quite normal – not that I like this ...
Read More »Macron wins French presidency by emphatic margin: projections
Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France on Sunday with a business-friendly vision of European integration, defeating Marine Le Pen, a far-right nationalist who threatened to take France out of the European Union, early projections showed, according to Reuters. The centrist’s emphatic ...
Read More »French presidential election: Macron favorite in opinion polls as
Opinion polls indicate they will pick Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old ex-economy minister who wants to bridge the left-right divide, resisting an anti-establishment tide that has seen Britons vote to leave the EU and Americans choose Donald Trump as U.S. president, ...
Read More »French election: Macron’s presidential campaign hacked
The document dump happened Friday night, less than 48 hours before the country votes in the final round of the presidential election, which pits the independent centrist Macron against the far-right Marine Le Pen, according to CNN. The files were ...
Read More »Macron, Le Pen clash in French pre-election TV showdown
The two went into the debate with opinion polls showing Macron, 39, with a strong lead of 20 percentage points over the National Front’s Le Pen, 48, in what is widely seen as France’s most important election in decades, according ...
Read More »French election: Macron to face Le Pen after first round
The independent centrist Emmanuel Macron has topped the first round of the French presidential election and according to projections will face the far-right Front National’s Marine Le Pen in a standoff marked by anti-establishment anger that knocked France’s traditional political ...
Read More »France votes in cliffhanger presidential election
Nearly 47 million voters will decide, under tight security, whether to back a pro-EU centrist newcomer, a scandal-ridden veteran conservative who wants to slash public spending, a far-left eurosceptic admirer of Fidel Castro or appoint France’s first woman president who ...
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