Emmanuel Macron

Bundestag backs record borrowing package

Three-party alliance backs borrowing package of €500 billion for infrastructure projects and an effective blank cheque for defence and security spending

A ‘one-month truce on air, sea and energy infrastructure’: What’s in Europe’s Ukraine peace plan?

Kremlin says someone will have to force Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy to make peace

‘Zelenskiy had to stand up for himself, for Ukraine and the truth’: Ukrainians now look to Europe after White House chaos

Some Ukrainians say Zelenskiy should not have become frustrated in Oval Office, others think he was intentionally goaded

‘I have done hideous things’: the French surgeon who kept diaries detailing his alleged sexual crimes

Joël Le Scouarnec is accused of the rape and sexual assault of 299 patients. Coming in the wake of the Pelicot trial, the case is another sign of France’s slow-changing attitudes to sexual crimes

US-Ukraine ties in tatters as their leaders argue in the White House

Trump tells Zelenskiy to ‘make a deal or we are out’ as he pushes for rapprochement with Russia

Micheál Martin should follow Macron’s playbook for handling Trump

The French president recognised the need to stroke Trump’s ego even as he confidently reasserted Europe’s position on several issues

How should Micheál Martin approach his White House visit?

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Keir Starmer faces a defining moment as he heads for Washington

Trade and defence, including the future of Ukraine, will top the agenda for the UK PM’s first meeting with Donald Trump as president

Ukraine peace deal could come in phases following a pause in fighting, EU leaders told

Security guarantees could follow on from ceasefire, conference in wake of Macron-Trump summit heard

Macron’s Ukraine ‘turning point’ lacks security commitments from Trump

French president seeks US ‘backstop’ as part of postwar agreement

US sides with Russia to vote against UN resolution supporting Ukraine in extraordinary move

France’s Macron says a truce ‘could be done in the weeks to come’

Macron, Merz and Micheál Martin plot ways to fill gap left by US on Ukraine

Cabinet meets today before Dáil returns, with resumption of weekly speaking row likely

Ukraine seeks to soothe Trump spat with call for ‘strong, effective’ deal on US ties

Russia backs White House criticism of Kyiv as European leaders support Zelenskiy

Notre-Dame restoration: ‘It’s the project of our life’

Paris letter: National effort saw Notre-Dame cathedral restored following devastating fire

Micheál Martin to take part in European leaders' call on Ukraine talks

Second discussion among wider group of European leaders and Canada organised by French president Emmanuel Macron

European leaders say peace deal cannot be dictated to Ukraine

Emergency summit of European leaders comes at same time US and Russia meet in Saudi Arabia

Ukraine settlement would need broad security guarantees, says Tusk at emergency summit

European leaders emergency summit hears calls for big increase in defence spending

Ukraine war deal more existential for EU than US tariff dispute

Leaders mull how to fill gap left by US drift away from European allies

European leaders meet over Trump plan for talks to end Ukraine war

US view that Europe should not be part of the negotiations sparks alarm in EU capitals

French government survives no-confidence votes, but political deadlock remains

Prime minister François Bayrou is trying to succeed where Michel Barnier failed, but faces a very high mountain

Starmer and Tusk to join Macron-led crisis summit in Paris for talks on Trump’s Ukraine plan

UK and Polish prime ministers among leaders invited to French capital on Monday for talks amid fears US leader is sidelining allies

Safe, transparent, trustworthy AI? No thanks, say US and UK

Planet Business: Plastic straw update, Elon Musk’s 19-year-old Doge lieutenant and the latest in Gulf of America appeasement

As the global AI race intensifies, Europe tries to close the large gap

At a summit in Paris, the EU pledges to start putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to artificial intelligence

The Irish Times view on the French government: a fragile lease of life

Passing the budget will come as a relief to President Macron, but he will know that further tests lie ahead for a shaky government

Rapid growth of AI poses ‘profound’ threat to privacy

Paris meeting hears call for caution around development of AI software by handful of big tech companies

EU urged to cut regulation to catch up in artificial intelligence race

Taoiseach Micheál Martin among world leaders travelling to Paris for AI summit

All change in the briefing room, as White House holds space for influencers and content creators

Planet Business: French AI chatbot Lucie, Boeing’s new 737 targets and Roman Abramovich’s yacht scheme

Ukraine’s military fights fires on many fronts amid battlefield setbacks

Scandals, ‘leaks’, army recruitment woes and Trump fears compound concerns over trajectory of war

Mona Lisa to be moved as Emmanuel Macron announces major overhaul to modernise Louvre

Non-EU visitors will pay a higher entrance fee to visit the Louvre, the French president said

Tensions between France and Algeria escalate with row over deportation of influencer

Always testy, the relationship between the two countries has deteriorated in recent months

Moscow says it will respond to ‘massive’ Ukrainian strike on targets deep inside Russia

Nato launches Baltic patrol mission after suspected Russian sabotage of undersea cables

Jean-Marie Le Pen obituary: French far-right politician rode waves of discontent and xenophobia

Founding father of France’s modern political far right was challenged by historians, denounced across the political spectrum, and convicted repeatedly of inciting racial hatred or distorting historical record

How a divided France came together to rebuild Notre-Dame

Bureaucrats, billionaire donors, artisans and builders united to deliver a national project at a time of political strife

‘We need Macron to act.’ The view in Mayotte, the French island territory steamrolled by cyclone Chido

Emanuel Macron has visited France’s Indian Ocean department devastated last weekend’s storm but for some residents promises of support from Paris ring hollow

Gisèle Pelicot ‘ready to face another trial if needed’

Two defendants lodge appeals and ex-husband considers appealing his 20-year sentence

Macron in angry exchange with residents of cyclone-hit Mayotte

‘If it wasn’t for France, you would be in way deeper s**t,’ French president tells people in the country’s poorest overseas territory

Macron told ‘Mayotte is demolished’ as president arrives to survey damage from cyclone Chido

It is feared hundreds or even thousands of people died in storm, much higher than figure of 31 deaths given by authorities

France’s Mayotte cleans up after cyclone, total death toll still unknown

Cyclone Chido leaves 31 confirmed dead on Indian Ocean archipelago but officials fear death toll could run to thousands

The Irish Times view on France’s new prime minister: an impossible job

François Bayrou inherits a poisoned chalice of Emmanuel Macron’s making

France has a new prime minister, but the same political crisis

Centrist politician François Bayrou given the task of governing divided parliament where Michel Barnier failed

Macron names centrist ally Francois Bayrou as new French prime minister

Francois Bayrou replaces Michel Barnier who resigned last week after far-right and leftist lawmakers voted to topple the government

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