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Chinese leader Xi Jinping continued his European tour by visiting ally Serbia on Tuesday. The trip falls on a symbolic date: the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade during NATO's intervention over Kosovo. US jets dropped five bombs on the Chinese Embassy compound in the Serbian capital on 7 May 1999. Three Chinese nationals were killed, and 20 others were injured. Xi referenced the bombing directly in an op-ed published in Serbia’s Politika newspaper on Tuesday, where he wrote, “We must not forget that 25 years ago today, NATO brazenly bombed the Chinese Embassy ...
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France’s president hosted China’s leader at a remote mountain pass in the Pyrenees on Tuesday for private meetings after Xi visited Paris, in a trip dominated by trade disputes and Russia’s war in Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron made a point of inviting Chinese President Xi Jinping to the Tourmalet Pass near the Spanish border, where Macron spent time as a child visiting his grandmother. The invitation was intended as a reciprocal gesture, after Xi took Macron to the residence of the governor of Guangdong province, where the Chinese president’s father once lived, last year. The windi...
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China's President Xi Jinping has said his country is willing to work with France towards a global "cessation of war" during the upcoming Paris Olympics. At a press conference in Paris, Xi said China has been playing an "active role in achieving peace" in the war in Ukraine. "The world today is not very peaceful. As a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council and a responsible major country, China is willing to work with France to take the Paris Olympics as an opportunity to advocate a global ceasefire and cessation of war during the Games," Xi said. Those comments echoed similar ...
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President Xi Jinping is meeting his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in a rare visit to Paris, as part of a European trip which will include heading to Serbia and Hungary for further talks. Macron and Xi are being joined by head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, who is discussing broader concerns for the EU. Both Western leaders are poised to issue stern warnings regarding trade. The state visit comes against a backdrop of simmering tensions over state subsidies for Chinese products in the EU, which provoked the European Commission to launch an investigation last year. These s...
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China's leader is on a three-country tour of Europe at a time when Sino-European relations are far from perfect. After stopping in France on Sunday and Monday as part of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of Franco-Chinese diplomatic relations, Xi Jinping will travel to Serbia and then to Hungary. What are the economic and strategic stakes of this highly political tour? War in UkraineThe Chinese and French presidents will first address the issue of the war in Ukraine. With China "one of Russia’s main partners", the French president will try to encourage Beijing "to use the levers it has...
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At a conference on Ukraine in Paris at the end of February 2024, French President Emmanuel Macron did not rule out putting boots on the ground in Ukraine. The announcement wasn't taken well across the Rhine. A few hours later, Germany's Olaf Scholz answered “Europe and NATO will not send any soldiers to Ukraine.” Macron's statement was "a red line for Germany”, which fears being passed off as “warmonger” in the eyes of Vladimir Putin, according to Dr Carolyn Moser, director of a research group at Heidelberg's Max Planck Institute of International Law and holder of the Alfred Grosser Chair at S...
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This week, we are joined by Olena Abramovych, Brussels correspondent for Ukrainian TV, Ricardo Borges de Castro, analyst in European and global affairs and Polish journalist Dorota Bawolek. Panelists reflect on the big bang enlargement of the European Union that took place 20 years ago when leaders of 10 new countries presented their flags to Pat Cox, then president of the European Parliament. Despite the bumps along the way, the panel agreed it was a success. "Even though you can say that the story has not always be rosy, over the past 20 years it has been a great story", Ricardo Borges de Ca...
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed to strengthen their military cooperation on Thursday. Kishida met with the French president over lunch at the Elysée Palace in Paris where they discussed a possible Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) after the Japanese prime minister attended a forum at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The RAA could facilitate military cooperation by allowing the entry of foreign personnel and conducting joint drills in maritime waters. 'China's attempts to change status quo is concerning'Their me...
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France's far right is expected to make gains in June's European elections. It stands the chance of reshaping EU politics as it could influence the making of any new coalition in the European Parliament and weaken pro-EU forces. According to a late April exclusive Euronews Superpoll, the far-right Rassemblement National is in first place and has consolidated its score slightly above the 30% of the voting intentions in four weeks, while the party of president Macron, Renaissance, is second, with a meagre 17.5%. The French far-right is spearheaded by the Rassemblement National of Jordan Bardella,...
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French President Emmanuel Macron said in a speech this week that he would like to see Europe create a “digital majority” of 15, meaning that before that age, parents would control access to the “digital space”. France enacted a law in July 2023 that requires online social network service providers operating in France to refuse children under 15 unless expressly authorised by one of their parents or guardians. Failure to comply with this obligation could result in the social platform being fined up to one per cent of its worldwide sales. “Does anyone send their child into the jungle at 5, 10 or...
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