France

President of France

26 Feb 2024 2 2

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 7 months ago

“If we ever redeploy... I would do so only at the request of President Bazoum.”

President of France

10 Sep 2023 3 2

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 7 months ago

“I think our policy is the right one. It's based on the courage of President Bazoum, and on the commitments of our ambassador on the ground who is remaining despite all the pressure, despite all the declarations made by the illegitimate authorities.”

President of France

28 Aug 2023 3 2

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 1 year ago

“I know I can count on you to bring back Russia to reason and everyone back to the negotiating table.”

President of France

06 Apr 2023 4 2

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 1 year ago

“In recent days, France has sent Ukraine more arms, rocket launchers, Crotale (air defence batteries), equipment beyond what we had already done. We are also working with the armed forces minister [Sebastien Lecornu] to be able to deliver useful arms and ammunition again in the first quarter [of 2023] so that the Ukrainians would be able to defend themselves against bombardments.”

President of France

20 Dec 2022 4 3

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 1 year ago

“I told him [Putin ] that he made a historic and fundamental error for his people, for himself and for history. I think he has isolated himself. Isolating oneself is one thing, but being able to get out of it is a difficult path.”

President of France

03 Jun 2022 5 4

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 1 year ago

“Russia has chosen to continue its war in Ukraine. Tonight, as Europeans, united and in solidarity with the Ukrainian people, we are taking new decisive sanctions.”

President of France

30 May 2022 5 2

Samuel Ramani

Inserted 1 year ago

“Now that Le Pen has lost, Macron will push for a full energy embargo, as he has already said that France doesn't depend on Russian gas. The French president will also build on recent heavy artillery transfers to Ukraine and the 100 million euros [$106m] in arms sent in the first two months of the war. With the election pressure gone, Macron will have more freedom to engage with Putin diplomatically while making French policy towards Russia tougher.”

Doctoral candidate in international relations at the University of Oxford’s St Antony’s College

27 Apr 2022 7 2

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 2 years ago

“We cannot remain militarily engaged alongside de-facto authorities whose strategy and hidden aims we do not share.”

President of France

17 Feb 2022 1 2

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 2 years ago

“I obtained that there will be no degradation nor escalation. My aim was to freeze the game, to prevent an escalation and open up new perspectives. This objective for me is fulfilled.”

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President of France

08 Feb 2022 4 4

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 2 years ago

“We won't get unilateral gestures, but it is indispensable to prevent a degradation of the situation before building confidence gestures and mechanisms. The geopolitical objective of Russia today is clearly not Ukraine, but to clarify the rules of cohabitation with NATO and the EU. The security and sovereignty of Ukraine or any other European state cannot be a subject for compromise, while it is also legitimate for Russia to pose the question of its own security.”

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President of France

06 Feb 2022 4 3

Marie Noelle Bernard

Inserted 2 years ago

“When we talk about the trees being cut down, it's not just the trees. All of these trees are home to protected species. The environmental impact is enormous. Ecocide is not yet recognised in French law, unfortunately. But this will be an ecocide.”

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Member of environment collective 'Touche pas à mon Bois de Vincennes'

16 Jan 2022 3 3

Julien Carvelli

Inserted 2 years ago

“We're sick of this. We're afraid we won't have enough space.”

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ICU chief at Marseille’s La Timone Hospital

25 Dec 2021 1 3

Marc Knobel

Inserted 2 years ago

“His [Éric Zemmour] words are extremely harsh towards minorities, immigrants, refugees, because there is a political continuum. His ideology carries him and makes him a man of the far-right.”

French Jewish historian who researches anti-Semitism

22 Dec 2021 5 4

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 2 years ago

“Caledonians have chosen to remain French. They decided that freely. We can't ignore that the electorate remained deeply divided over the years … A period of transition is now starting.”

President of France

12 Dec 2021 4 2

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 2 years ago

“What we all want, Europeans and Americans, is to show that we are paying close attention to the situation.”

Rferl

President of France

10 Dec 2021 2 1

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 2 years ago

“That region is going through new tensions today. History is coming back. Sometimes tragedy is coming back. Today we have a special responsibility towards the Western Balkans. EU should pursue a policy of re-engagement, but also investment in order to favor the economic integration of the region; develop human exchange, raise the issue of minorities present in the region, but also fight against influence and manipulation who want to destabilise Europe through the Balkans. I believe that this political and economic work towards the Western Balkans is a real sovereignty agenda for our Europe because we cannot build a peaceful Europe in the next 50 years if we leave the Western Balkans in the current situation. That means clarifying its European perspective, reinvesting to the region and its unity and to have a common ambition for the decades to come.”

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President of France

09 Dec 2021 7 3

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 2 years ago

“We are thinking of an organisation between several European countries … a common location for several Europeans, which would allow our ambassadors to be present. This is a different demarche than a political recognition or political dialogue with the Taliban … we will have a representation as soon as we can open.”

President of France

04 Dec 2021 5 3

Valérie Pécresse

Inserted 2 years ago

“For the first time in its history, our party will have a female candidate for the presidential election. Between the outgoing president and me, there's a difference in our natures. Emmanuel Macron has one obsession, which is to please. Me, I have only one passion, which is to do. Nothing is doomed. We are not condemned either to disorder or to decline. Our country is full of talent, full of energy. The Republican right is back … we will give our country back its unity, its dignity and its pride.”

French politician serving as President of the Regional Council of Île-de-France and presidential candidate for the Republican

04 Dec 2021 2 2

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 2 years ago

“We will do all we can to re-engage the Gulf regions for the benefit of Lebanon. I hope the coming hours will allow us to make progress.”

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President of France

03 Dec 2021 3 2

Philippe Corcuff

Inserted 2 years ago

“We're in a new phase. What we're seeing is the result of what has been happening in France for the past 15 years: the collapse of the left, which is now silent on immigration, and the rise of the extreme right, which ultimately may not win the elections but is setting the terms of the debate.”

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Expert on the far right who teaches at the Institute of Political Studies in Lyon

02 Dec 2021 3 3

Didier Fassin

Inserted 2 years ago

“To understand the rise of someone with such extremist views, it is important to recognise the changing dynamics within the French right, as well as the way the centre of political gravity in the country has moved rightwards. Zemmour's rise has coincided with a drop in support for Marine Le Pen of the Rassemblement National - even if the sociological makeup of the two candidates' supporters differs, as women, young people and blue-collar workers are inclined toward Le Pen, while men, older people and the upper middle class tend to favour Zemmour.”

Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and director of studies at the École des Hautes Études, Paris

01 Dec 2021 4 4

Eric Zemmour

Inserted 2 years ago

“We won't allow ourselves to be dominated, turned into vassals, conquered, colonized. We won't allow ourselves to be replaced.”

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French presidential candidate

30 Nov 2021 4 3

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 2 years ago

“Since this afternoon, discussions have resumed on the basis of a proposal I made to prime minister [Boris] Johnson. The talks need to continue. We'll see where we are tomorrow at the end of the day, to see if things have really changed.”

President of France

01 Nov 2021 3 1

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 2 years ago

“I have a lot of respect for your country. I have a lot of respect and a lot of friendship for your people. I just say when we have respect, you have to be true and you have to behave in line, and consistently, with this value.”

President of France

31 Oct 2021 1 2

Bruno Le Maire

Inserted 2 years ago

“The fact that we agreed on this new international tax system is good news for all of us, it's clearly a revolution in the international tax system.”

Finance Minister of France

29 Oct 2021 2 2

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 2 years ago

“We clarified together what we had to clarify. What really matters now is what we will do together in the coming weeks, the coming months, the coming years.”

President of France

29 Oct 2021 2 4

Antoine Gautier

Inserted 2 years ago

“A candidate has never been known to experience such a change in voter intentions in so short a space of time as we've seen with Eric Zemmour.”

Harris Interactive pollster

06 Oct 2021 2 3

Pascal Ianni

Inserted 2 years ago

“This morning when we filed flight plans for two planes, we learned that the Algerians had stopped flights over their territory by French military planes. The decision does not affect our operations or intelligence missions carried out in the Sahel.”

French army spokesman

03 Oct 2021 5 2

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 2 years ago

“We have a commitment to the independence of Europe. This is part of the common struggles we have undertaken in Europe - technological independence, a European defence, and combat-readiness.”

President of France

28 Sep 2021 4 2

Ursula von der Leyen

Inserted 2 years ago

“One of our member states [France] has been treated in a way that is not acceptable, so we want to know what happened and why. The situation must be clarified before you keep on going with business as usual.”

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President of the European Commission

20 Sep 2021 2 2

Gregory Poling

Inserted 2 years ago

“The increasing level of global anxiety about China is the tide that lifts all boats here. I'm pretty confident that there's going to be a rough few months ahead, but Paris is going to get over it because its strategic interests dictate that it has to get over it.”

Director of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the US-based Center for Strategic and International Studies

18 Sep 2021 1 3

Nathalie Goulet

Inserted 2 years ago

“Someone should have warned before this breach of contract … I don't understand this couldn't have happened overnight. It's a failure for industry, intelligence and communication and a public humiliation … and nobody likes to be humiliated, even the French.”

Member of the Senate of France and vice-president of the French Sénat’s foreign affairs, defence and armed forces commission

18 Sep 2021 0 5

Peter Ricketts

Inserted 2 years ago

“There is a deep sense of betrayal in France because this wasn't just an arms contract, this was France setting up a strategic partnership with Australia and the Australians have now thrown that away and negotiated behind the backs of France with two Nato allies, the US and UK, to replace it with a completely different contract. For the French this looks like a complete failure of trust between allies and calls into doubt what is Nato for. This puts a big rift down the middle of the Nato alliance … Britain needs a functioning Nato alliance. I think people underestimated the impact that this would have in France and how this would seem as a humiliation and betrayal in a year President Macron is running for election in a very tight race with the far right.”

Former permanent undersecretary at the Foreign Office and former UK ambassador to France

18 Sep 2021 11 4

Jean-Yves Le Drian

Inserted 2 years ago

“The agreement project initiated by the US and Australia was decided by a small group and I'm not sure US and Australian ministers knew about it. When we see the US president with the Australian prime minister announce a new agreement, with Boris Johnson, the breach of trust is profound. In a real alliance you talk to each other, you don't hide things, you respect the other party, and that is why this is a real crisis.”

Foreign Minister of France

18 Sep 2021 5 4

Jean-Pierre Thebault

Inserted 2 years ago

“I think this has been a huge mistake, a very, very bad handling of the partnership - because it wasn't a contract, it was a partnership that was supposed to be based on trust, mutual understanding and sincerity. I would like to run into a time machine, if possible, and be in a situation where we don't end up in such an incredible, clumsy, inadequate un-Australian situation. I'm very sad to be forced to leave, albeit there needs to be some reassessment to be made.”