Raphaël Glucksmann, French MEP and founder of the Place Publique political party, at the “Our Vision for France” press conference in Paris, June 23, 2025. THOMAS SAMSON/AFP In a trendy café in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, Raphaël Glucksmann tried on Monday, June 23, to answer a major question. “What do we want for France?” […]
A banner in support of detained French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, is displayed on a bridge in Beziers, southern France on March 26, 2025. GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP Algeria’s prosecutor general sought at an appeal hearing on Tuesday, June 24, 10 years in prison for writer Boualem Sansal, doubling his current sentence. The dual French-Algerian writer, […]
“In France, we don’t have oil but we have ideas,” was a refrain during the first oil crisis in 1973. It is likely that at the same time, in the Gulf monarchies, people were saying: We have oil, it pollutes, but we don’t have income tax. There was no need to tax residents when hydrocarbon […]
Tesla vehicles are parked outside a Tesla service center and gallery in Austin, Texas, U.S., June 21, 2025. REUTERS/Joel Angel Juarez JOEL ANGEL JUAREZ / REUTERS French anti-fraud authorities said on Tuesday, June 24, they have ordered US electric car giant Tesla’s local subsidiary to stop “deceptive commercial practices” after an investigation found several violations […]
Donald Trump arriving at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on June 21, 2025. KEN CEDENO/REUTERS Not having to follow the rules of consistency offers a lot of flexibility. The message posted by Donald Trump on Monday, June 23, on his Truth Social platform broke all the rules. Shortly after 6 pm, the US president […]
President of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, arriving at the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, on October 23, 2024. MAXIM SHEMETOV / REUTERS The United States’s entry into war against Iran is a worst-case scenario for the Gulf monarchies. The support they have shown for Iran since June 13, condemning Israel’s […]
‘The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,’ 1994, directed by Stephan Elliott. SPLENDORS FILMS For 11 years, a film event with a quirky name – the Festival du film de fesses (“Festival of Sex Flicks”) – has invited cinephiles to take a different look, not at pornographic cinema, but at erotic cinema, which became […]
Letter from London A map of D-Day decoys and photos of potential spies on display at the exhibition on MI5, the British intelligence agency, at the National Archives in London, on April 1, 2025. TOBY MELVILLE/REUTERS On the ground floor of the National Archives in the West London suburbs, an unusual exhibition – the first […]
On February 2 of this year, Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to fly to Washington for a first meeting with Donald Trump since the latter’s return to the Oval Office. On the tarmac at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport, the Israeli prime minister outlined his vision: “The decisions we made in the war have already changed the […]
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte at a press conference in The Hague, the Netherlands, on June 23, 2025. MARKUS SCHREIBER/AP This will be a moment of truth for Mark Rutte. The former Dutch prime minister is set to open, on Tuesday, June 24, his first summit as secretary-general of NATO, a post he has held since […]
