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Hungary hid Brazil’s Bolsonaro in embassy while police investigated alleged...
BELÉM, Brazil — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro spent two nights in Hungary’s embassy in Brasília in February, presumably to hide from Brazilian authorities that are investigating his...
View ArticleMacron charms Brazil’s Lula with submarines
SAO PAULO — France is beefing up its defense ties with Brazil — shored up by President Emmanuel Macron’s first state visit to the country. The cooperation between the two was highlighted Wednesday...
View ArticleBehind the Macron-Lula bromance
BRASÍLIA, Brazil ― France’s Emmanuel Macron and Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva spent three days publicly showering each other with mutual presidential affection, framed by the Amazon’s golden...
View ArticleParis to everyone: Buy French solar panels, forget all competitors
PARIS ― France wants everyone buying French solar panels — and it’s not being subtle. “I call on big decision-makers, energy companies and solar parks developers … to massively resort to ‘Made in...
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Too French to fail: Why Paris is rescuing Atos
PARIS — When Atos called for help, France just couldn’t say no. The IT company, vital to France’s staging of this year’s Summer Olympic Games, on Tuesday announced it managed to secure “interim...
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Macron, Le Maire feud flares up amid France’s fiscal woes
PARIS — France’s Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire is amping up the volume on the need to tackle the country’s deteriorating public finances. But his strident calls for deep public spending cuts are...
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A new inconvenient truth: Europe’s global plans all require money no one has
BRUSSELS — EU leaders are on a grandiloquent streak, even by their standards. The EU can stay relevant in a world of resurgent big power politics. Europe won’t drown in the sea of public cash the U.S....
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More cash, less screen time: 5 policy takeaways from Macron’s Sorbonne speech
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron outlined his priorities for the future of the European Union on Thursday in an almost two-hour stump speech with about six weeks to go until the European...
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Nickel, guns and foreign powers: How France’s New Caledonia reached the brink...
PARIS — Nickel-rich New Caledonia could have been France’s Eldorado. Instead, it has once again turned into a security time bomb. Ongoing violent protests in the French overseas territory in the...
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A $50B US-EU deal for Ukraine is in sight
STRESA, Italy — The U.S. and the EU are overcoming their differences and edging closer to an agreement to secure a massive loan for Ukraine — using Russian assets frozen in the West as collateral....
View ArticleSocialist challenger slams von der Leyen’s aloof management style
PARIS — The lead socialist candidate in next week’s EU election — Jobs Commissioner Nicolas Schmit — has criticized European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for not involving commissioners...
View ArticleFrance hit by ratings downgrade despite spending-cuts crusade
PARIS — Credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s on Friday cut France’s credit rating, pouring cold water on the French government’s efforts to put its public finances back in order. The agency...
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Why the Dutch will stop worrying about free trade and start to love France
BRUSSELS — The European Union’s club of free-trading nations is about to lose a founding member. With radical-right politician Geert Wilders forging a new Dutch coalition that includes the...
View ArticleGovernments cool on plan to use EU budget to guarantee loan for Ukraine
European finance ministers are leaning toward a U.S.-led idea of Western governments jointly securing a multibillion euro loan for Ukraine ― rather than the EU doing it by itself ― five officials told...
View ArticleMacron gambles on snap election to fight far-right surge
PARIS — European elections are meant to be worthy but boring exercises in centrist coalition building. Not this time. A surge in far-right populism in France provoked President Emmanuel Macron into...
View ArticleMacron’s loss in France boosts prospect of second term for von der Leyen
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron may be notorious as a great political disruptor but — when it comes to Brussels — he’ll probably allow things to stay as they are and back a second term for...
View ArticleMacron rules out resigning, ‘whatever the result’ of French election
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday said he would not resign “whatever the result” of the upcoming French parliamentary elections. Macron called the election on Sunday night, in...
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Macron’s election wager puts France’s economy in peril
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron isn’t just staking his political life with his call for a snap election. He is also taking a massive gamble with the French economy. Financial markets are...
View ArticleFrench far right backpedals on big-ticket proposals as markets tumble
PARIS — Marine Le Pen’s far-right party is pledging to hold some of its costly measures for later in a bid to reassure jittery markets as the race to the French legislative elections heats up....
View ArticleMacron, Meloni clash over abortion rights at G7
BARI, Italy — French President Emmanuel Macron and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni traded barbs at the G7 summit in southern Italy in the wake of a European election that left the Italian prime minister...
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