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Emmanuel Macron made a very long journey to try to get New Caledonia out of the political impasse. The Head of State arrived this Thursday at Nouméa airport around 8:20 a.m. (11:20 p.m. in mainland France on Wednesday). “I simply wanted to tell you (…) my desire here, with the ministers and the entire government, to be alongside the population and so that as quickly as possible, there is a return to peace, calm, to security. It is the priority of priorities,” declared the president as soon as he got off the plane and after more than a week of riots which left six dead, including two gendarmes.
Arriving alongside ministers Gérald Darmanin (Interior), Sébastien Lecornu (Armies) and Marie Guévenoux (Overseas), Emmanuel Macron promised “decisions” and “announcements” at “the end of this day”, even if he assured that he had “no limit” on his time on site.
While the American presidential campaign is in full swing, Donald Trump has once again attacked Joe Biden in a surprising way. The former president, in fact, suggested that an FBI search warrant, which targeted his Florida residence in 2022, showed that the current tenant of the White House wanted him dead. This contains standard FBI language, according to which its agents are authorized to use deadly force if someone finds themselves in imminent danger. But for Donald Trump, it shows that agents were willing to shoot him and harm his family. An interpretation rejected by the FBI.
The French do not seem to want to think about Brussels when they are called to the polls on June 9. The 2024 European election campaign is in fact “Franco-centric” and “covered with less intensity than in 2019” by the media. These are the conclusions of a study by the Jean Jaurès Foundation, published this Thursday. Carried out in partnership with the Onclusive firm and Ina, it also underlines that “the French consider themselves poorly informed on European issues”. Thus, only 54% of them know that Ursula von der Leyen is President of the European Commission, while three out of four Europeans know her.