TAG: Protectionism

Macron flirts with EU-bashing in wink to French farmers

PARIS — As angry French farmers threaten to blockade the roads into Paris, Emmanuel Macron wants to...

8 months ago

Behind 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 sunsets and Brasília's white modernist palaces.It was Macro...

6 months ago

Macron bets on investments and fraternité to charm Lula in first visit to Brazil

BELÉM, Brazil — “You can do business without necessarily having trade agreements,” French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters bombarding him with questions on why he so adamantly opposes an EU trade deal with Brazil and other South American countries...

6 months ago

Paris 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 France' panels," France's Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire s...

6 months ago

Macron warns Europe ‘can die’ in alarmist speech on protectionism, geopolitical threats

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron warned Thursday that Europe faces possible demise if it does not take bold action to tackle U.S. and Chinese protectionism, amid serious geopolitical threats from authoritarian regimes.In a bleak and solemn speech...

5 months ago

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 election in June. The marathon address at Sorbonne Universit...

5 months ago

Nickel, guns and foreign powers: How France’s New Caledonia reached the brink of ‘civil war’

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 South Pacific, which have already led to the death of five p...

4 months ago

ECB should cut in September and take a hard look at the US — Rehn

The European Central Bank should cut interest rates at its September policy meeting, to steer against an economic slowdown that has become more worrying over the course of the summer, one of the bank’s top policymakers said in an interview.Bank of Finland...

1 month ago

Secretive Draghi is echoing Soviet Union restructuring

Izabella Kaminska is senior finance editor at POLITICO Europe.For most of the past year, the big brain of Mario Draghi — Europe’s supreme technocrat — has been holed up in Brussels at the behest of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, draft...

1 month ago

What the new French government means for Brussels

PARIS — After two months of anxious waiting, France finally has a new government. President Emmanuel Macron's loyalists managed to keep hold of key ministries spanning from the economy to energy, meaning that France's position on major economic files is n...

3 weeks ago