Australia trade deal brings back Macron’s Mercosur nightmare ○
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3 months ago
France's trade minister tells POLITICO that the EU-Australia deal is "balanced" despite mounting opposition from farmers.
France wants power to overlook national laws in case of threat ⊖
French PM Sébastien Lecornu also announces €8.5 billion for munitions by 2030 and a new platform to buy missiles, shells and drones in bulk.
Police seize bespoke 'smuggling kits' being sold to Channel migrant traffickers - complete with dinghies, engines and even tyre inner tubes used as makeshift lifejackets ⊖
The kits - priced at between £9,000 and £17,000 - were offered to people smuggling rings involved in sending migrants from France to the UK.
Could the continent’s far right be suffering from a Trumplash? ⊖⊖
France’s National Rally missed key targets in local elections ahead of next year’s seismic presidential vote – and the mainstream is doing OK elsewhere, too
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Canada tells Israel that Lebanon’s sovereignty ‘must not be violated’ ○
Canada and France call on Israel to halt plans to occupy southern Lebanon as invasion preparations under way.
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