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LeMonde
26-05-2025
- Politics
- LeMonde
Former French PM faces backlash over proposal to ban headscarves for children
Former French prime minister Gabriel Attal faces backlash from across the board after calling to ban Muslim headscarves for children under 15. Seeking media attention and to show "firmness" on state authority issues, Attal outlined his proposal on Tuesday, May 20, the day before a Defense Council meeting about a report on the Muslim Brotherhood and political Islamism in France. He also called for the creation of a "misdemeanor of coercion to wear a headscarf" to punish parents. His statements drew criticism from the left, the right and even from within his own party. His predecessor as prime minister, Elisabeth Borne, voiced her "deepest doubts about the constitutionality" and the "applicability" of the measure, speaking on Sunday to the news channel BFM-TV. "Can we really imagine police officers stopping and fining little girls?" she asked. While she argued that "in the face of a serious threat (...) no option should be off the table," Borne, now the education minister, advised "working to propose rigorous, constitutionally sound, and applicable measures." Marc Fesneau, the second-in-command of centrist Prime Minister François Bayrou's MoDem party, expressed concern about "an escalating one-upmanship" on matters of state authority within President Emmanuel Macron's coalition. "Within the 'central bloc,' we are now advocating the rhetoric, the ideas, the proposals of the right, or even the far right. But that is not what the center is about! That is not the adventure we wanted to build with Emmanuel Macron in 2017," said Fesneau, in the newspaper . "The original promise was one of moderation, unity, and reconciliation," he said.
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Macron announces Franco-British mission to Ukraine to work on strengthening Ukraine's military
President Emmanuel Macron has announced that a Franco-British mission will travel to Ukraine to work on strengthening Ukraine's defence forces. Source: BFM-TV, a French news broadcast television and radio network, citing Macron at a press conference following the coalition of the willing summit in Paris on 27 March, as reported by European Pravda Details: Macron stated that a Franco-British team would be sent to Ukraine to "prepare the Ukrainian army of tomorrow". He added that work is continuing on the potential deployment of so-called "deterrent forces" in Ukraine – troops that could serve as a deterrent in the event of a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine. Macron noted that such forces could come from "certain EU member states" and be stationed in "certain strategic locations" in Ukraine. Background: Earlier, reports suggested that France has acknowledged the possibility of deploying European peacekeeping forces in Ukraine, stationed away from the front line, with one proposed option being along the Dnipro River. The coalition of the willing, led by France and the UK, has been working for several weeks on a plan to send thousands of troops to Ukraine to help guarantee a future ceasefire. Sources in European diplomatic circles told Reuters that there is growing scepticism in Europe about the feasibility of the plan due to logistical challenges, troop shortages, resistance from Russia and the lack of US security guarantees. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
