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May 20, 2023 09:19 PM IST On Saturday, the two leaders had a 45-minute meeting at the G7. The two looked relaxed and Macron appeared to ask Meloni about the floods which hit the north of her country this week.
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April 18, 2023 12:09 AM IST Macron said "this changes were needed to guarantee everyone's pension," after he enacted the pension law on Saturday.
- April 08, 2023 10:45 AM IST
Macron canoodled with Xi across China, sipped tea, spoke of world peace, and sold 160 Airbus airplanes. But nothing substantive was achieved regarding the Ukraine war, other than stale Chinese state-speak.
- March 16, 2023 08:59 PM IST
"We can't take the risk of seeing 175 hours of parliamentary debate come to nothing," Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne told MPs.
- February 15, 2023 07:06 AM IST
With the purchase of the Airbus planes, Air India has signalled continuity for its full-service arm.
- October 27, 2022 07:22 AM IST
Scholz flew into the French capital for a hastily scheduled working lunch to find common ground on differences shaking Europe's two powerhouses after the French leader cancelled a joint cabinet meeting.
- October 26, 2022 01:41 PM IST
France should, in theory, be a poster child for the kind of loose spending that has markets panicking over deficits. It emerged from Covid-19 with a debt-to-GDP ratio of 113% and a budget deficit of 7%, higher than the euro-area average, having pulled out the stops to protect jobs.
- October 26, 2022 12:07 PM IST
Macron and Scholz will have a working lunch at the Elysee presidential palace, during which they will discuss the situation in Ukraine.
- October 24, 2022 03:56 PM IST
The nearly hour-long private audience was Francis third with Macron since becoming pontiff.
- September 11, 2022 10:01 PM IST
The Elysee said Macron had told the Russian leader in a call that "the Russian occupation was the reason for the risks" facing the largest nuclear power plant in Europe which has been a focal point of fighting in recent weeks, raising concerns of a potential nuclear incident.
- August 20, 2022 07:53 AM IST
Macron, who tried tirelessly but unsuccessfully to prevent the invasion and long vaunted the importance of dialogue with Putin, has grown increasingly critical of the Russian president as the war bears on.
- June 29, 2022 03:33 PM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was on a visit to Germany to attend G7 Summit, presented its leaders with various gifts displaying India’s rich art and craft, especially those related to Uttar Pradesh’s one district one product scheme.
- June 19, 2022 08:45 AM IST
Macron, who wants to push up the retirement age, pursue his pro-business agenda and further European Union integration, won a second term in April.
- June 04, 2022 10:06 PM IST
Ukraine rebuked French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday for saying it was important not to "humiliate" Russia, a position Ukrainian foreign minister Dmitro Kuleba said "can only humiliate France".
- June 04, 2022 10:00 PM IST
French President Emmanuel Macron said it is vital that Russia is not humiliated so that when the fighting stops in Ukraine a diplomatic solution can be found, adding that he believed Paris would play a mediating role to end the conflict.
- May 28, 2022 08:06 PM IST
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday asked Russia's Vladimir Putin to hold "direct serious negotiations" with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.
- May 08, 2022 09:03 AM IST
In a short speech, Macron spoke of the need to innovate at a time of unprecedented challenges for the world and for France, and said his second term would be "new" and not merely a continuation of his first five years in office.
- May 05, 2022 11:36 AM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met French president Emmanuel Macron on May 4 in Paris. PM Modi arrived in France on May 4 on the final leg of his three-nation European tour, which included Germany and Denmark.
- May 01, 2022 11:03 AM IST
The prime minister will hold meetings, bilateral as well as multilateral, with eight world leaders from seven countries besides having an interaction with 50 global business leaders. He will also interact with thousands of members of the Indian community
- April 25, 2022 05:35 PM IST
From a rank outsider to France’s first president to win a second term in two decades, Macron's journey has been uncovnentional
- April 25, 2022 02:25 PM IST
French President Emmanuel Macron is set to begin efforts to unite a deeply divided nation after winning re-election on April 24 in a battle against rival Marine Le Pen that saw the far right come its closest yet to taking power. Centrist Macron won around 58.6 percent of the vote in the second-round run-off compared with Le Pen's 41.4 percent, according to official results from the Interior Ministry.
- April 24, 2022 12:39 PM IST
Opinion polls suggest that Macron has a solid lead, but analysts have cautioned that low turnout could sway the outcome in either direction.
- April 24, 2022 08:55 AM IST
Opinion polls in recent days gave Macron a solid and slightly growing lead as analysts said Le Pen – despite her efforts to soften her image and tone down some of her National Rally party's policies – remained unpalatable for many.
- July 20, 2021 10:49 PM IST
The French presidency said that if the revelations about Macron's phone being tapped were true, they would be very serious.
