Emmanuel Macron

Wearing sunglasses indoors, as Macron did, takes confidence — and some observers say he carried off the exercise with aplomb.

At Davos 2026, Trump said the US will no longer “subsidise the whole world,” defending tariffs and lowering drug costs.

For years, France’s president relied on personal rapport to steady Donald Trump. With tariffs threatened and Greenland in play, that approach is starting to look exhausted.

Macron was addressing global leaders at Davos when attention shifted from his remarks to his eyewear. The mirrored sunglasses stood out in a formal indoor setting and sparked a wave of online chatter.

While other European leaders have tried to keep a measured tone to prevent the trans-Atlantic dispute from escalating, Macron came out swinging.

Emmanuel Macron described "competition from the United States of America through trade agreements that undermine our export interests, demand maximum concessions, and openly aim to weaken and subordinate Europe".

Macron, addressing Trump as his "friend" in the messages, said he was "totally in line" with Trump on Syria, and that they could do "great things on Iran".

Top executives from Airbus, France's largest bank BNP Paribas, electrical giant Schneider and train maker Alstom, along with leaders of the French dairy and poultry industry groups, have joined Macron in China

Macron in the past has sought to project a robust European front in dealing with China, while being careful not to antagonise Beijing

The G20 summit in South Africa exposed deep fractures in global governance as go-it-alone U.S. policies, geopolitical rivalries and widening economic tensions raised questions over the bloc’s ability to function effectively.

At the G20 Summit, calling for a shift from a “response-centric” to a “development-centric” model of resilience-building, the Prime Minister highlighted India’s belief that space technology should serve humanity as a whole.

French President Emmanuel Macron urged Europe to assert independence from US and Chinese tech dominance, calling for a “European preference” in technology and warning against becoming a tech “vassal” to foreign giants.

Macron spoke as Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas visited Paris one month into a fragile truce between Hamas and Israel

French couple, Cecile Kohler and her partner Jacques Paris, who had been detained since 2022, "are out of the Evin jail and en route to the French Embassy in Tehran", Macron posted on X.

Brigitte Macron’s daughter testified that the false claims have left the first lady battling anxiety and social humiliation.

The alteration renamed her “Jean-Michel, known as Brigitte Macron,” directly referencing an online conspiracy that has stalked the French First Lady for years.

The trial comes after she and President Emmanuel Macron filed a defamation lawsuit in the United States at the end of July, in connection with a rumour amplified and repeated online that Brigitte Macron was assigned male at birth

France is reeling after a daylight theft at the Louvre left eight royal jewels missing and exposed major security lapses at the world’s most famous museum.

France’s President Emmanuel Macron has once again named Sébastien Lecornu as Prime Minister, only days after his resignation from the same post.

Accepting his reappointment “out of duty,” Lecornu wrote on X that he would “do everything possible to provide France with a budget by the end of the year and to address the daily life issues of our fellow citizens.”