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Euractiv
03-07-2025
- Business
- Euractiv
Next round of talks over EU defence industry programme centre around role of foreign defence firms
Negotiations over the EU's proposed European Defence Industrial Programme (EDIP) between Parliament and the Council will hinge primarily on just how much money can flow to non-European defence companies. Technical trilogue talks on the programme start on Thursday, following an initial round of political discussions between MEPs and Council representatives earlier this week over the Commission's proposed €1.5 billion plan to revamp Europe's defence industry . Both sides are aiming for a final decision in October, according to two sources close to the file. Parliament negotiators object to waiving otherwise strict eligibility rules for missile and ammunition producers headquartered outside the EU – a concession several EU capitals insisted on during negotiations before agreeing to support the programme. A compromise text agreed by member states two weeks ago would exempt ammunition and missile makers from rules requiring technology sharing with European firms in order to qualify for EDIP funding – including so-called "design authority", which gives EU-based companies the right to modify and redesign products. Parliament strongly opposes any exemptions to the eligibility criteria governing which contractors and subcontractors can take part in EDIP-funded defence projects. MEPs adopted their version of the EDIP text – which doesn't include such carve-outs – two months ago. Differing defence goals The Commission first unveiled the plan more than a year ago, but progress has been slow due to lengthy disagreements over how much EDIP money can flow to outside firms. Some want to use the programme to build up Europe's defence sector and steer money toward domestic firms, while others see the priority as buying needed military hardware as quickly and efficiently as possible. MEPs largely take the former view, seeing the programme as a long-term roadmap to rebuild Europe's industrial defence base and reduce reliance on weapons manufacturers in third countries, particularly the United States. Granting access to non-EU missile and ammunition producers is seen as counterproductive. Some MEPs have argued that countries could tap into the programme's budget for European production, while still purchasing foreign military equipment out of their own national budgets. More money? Parliament is hoping to land on a much higher number than the current €1.5 billion envisioned for the programme. Among those pushing for that are the two French co-rapporteurs, François-Xavier Bellamy of the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) and Raphaël Glucksmann of the centre-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D). Broadening the proposed €1.5 billion should also be high on the agenda. MEPs pitched a much higher envelope in March, including an additional €15 billion from the €150 billion Security Action for Europe (SAFE) loan programme. It could also be bolstered by an additional €5 billion in SAFE loans for Ukraine's defence industry and purchases from Ukrainian firms. Denmark, which took over the Council presidency from Poland earlier this week, is leading the talks on behalf of the member states. The country, which had an opt-out on EU defence policy until just two years ago, has made the file one of the top priorities for the presidency. Technical talks will follow on Friday, and three additional technical trilogues are scheduled until 18 July. (bts, aw)
Times
24-06-2025
- Politics
- Times
Female news anchors ‘forced off TV' because partners are politicians
Barely a week after she was appointed, a French television news star has been caught up in a row over a potential conflict of interest as her domestic partner prepares to run for the presidency. Léa Salamé, 45, a sharp interviewer who was the surprise appointment as host of the main evening news on France 2 television, has come under pressure after Raphaël Glucksmann, a rising centre-left politician, made clear that he aims to join the field for the 2027 election. The daughter of a former Lebanese cabinet minister and an Armenian mother, Salamé has said she would reluctantly bow to the same pressure that has forced four other top female television news presenters with senior political partners to step aside in recent years if Glucksmann does decide to run. Salamé suspended her television interviewing and radio news presenting work last year, when Glucksmann, 45, the father of her son, led a Socialist party alliance to relative success in last June's European elections. Like many supporters, however, Salamé said the French understood that her impartiality would not be in question. 'From Emmanuel Macron to Marine Le Pen … I have never felt that in their eyes they were taking me for 'the wife of…',' she said. 'Times have changed and the French, including politicians, are much more feminist than people think.' Media ethics and the relationships between male politicians and top female broadcasters has been a sensitive issue since 1992 when President Mitterrand, a Socialist, gave his traditional Bastille Day interview. His two interrogators were television stars married to senior cabinet ministers — Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Bernard Kouchner. Some critics said France 2, the equivalent of BBC 1, had risked damaging the integrity of the public broadcaster in crowning Salamé as 'Queen of the 8PM', as the host of the daily hour-long Journal Télevisé, or JT, is known. On the other side, a columnist in Libération, the left-wing newspaper, said that forcing women journalists off screen to ensure impartiality was patronising. 'Women like Salamé are expected to sacrifice their jobs to uphold an outdated notion of neutrality, while male journalists navigate similar conflicts with less consequence,' the column said. Salamé is to take over presenting the 'JT' in September after Anne-Sophie Lapix lost her job last month because of falling ratings. Lapix, 53, is married to Arthur Sadoun, the chief executive of Publicis, the French-based advertising company.
LeMonde
24-06-2025
- Politics
- LeMonde
Raphaël Glucksmann sets out policy platform for 2027 French presidential election
In a trendy café in the 10 th arrondissement of Paris, Raphaël Glucksmann tried on Monday, June 23, to answer a major question. "What do we want for France?" he asked, holding up a yellow document – the color of his party, Place Publique – entitled "Our Vision for France." "That's what politics is about: working, working, working on a vision that is turned into a project," he said. In this 100-page document titled "Act I," the founder of Place Publique outlined his "vision" across 42 policy areas, after nine months of work alongside 3,000 activists and a quiet tour around France, away from the cameras. The clear objective, he said, is "that the pro-European and deeply democratic left should stop being trampled on and stop putting its principles in its pocket," a reference to his left-wing rival, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, from whom he paradoxically draws some inspiration: Years before Glucksmann, Mélenchon, a three-time French presidential candidate, based his movement La France Insoumise (LFI, radical left) on an extensive manifesto titled "L'Avenir en commun" ("A Shared Future"), which he developed and regularly updated with party activists.
LeMonde
20-06-2025
- Politics
- LeMonde
The dashed hopes of France's left-wing alliance
A year has gone by, but left-wing candidate Raphaël Glucksmann remembers that evening as if it were yesterday. The exhaustion of a European election campaign, the satisfaction of having come out ahead of the other left-wing candidates, the heat inside La Bellevilloise – the event venue in Paris' 20 th arrondissement where he had planned to celebrate his good result –President Emmanuel Macron appearing on television, his announcement of the dissolution of the Assemblée Nationale. Politics felt like a whirlwind on the evening of the June 9, 2024, European elections. During the campaign, the Socialist, Green and Communist parties had focused on one idea: that a strong showing by Glucksmann and the Socialist list would rebalance their parties' power dynamics with the radical-left La France Insoumise (LFI) party and force its leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, to accept the idea of a joint left-wing candidacy for the 2027 presidential election. Their tacit agreement, which they prepared far in advance, was upended by Macron's decision to dissolve the Assemblée. The hastily-organized snap elections that resulted forced all three parties to negotiate with LFI.
LeMonde
28-05-2025
- Politics
- LeMonde
French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann: 'I will not take part in a primary' for the 2027 presidential election
As left-wing and Green leaders call for a primary to pick a joint candidate for the 2027 French presidential election, Member of the European Parliament Raphaël Glucksmann rejected this strategy – just like Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of the radical-left party, La France Insoumise (LFI). The founder of the Socialist-allied Place Publique movement, who came in third – and on top on the left – in the 2024 European elections, does not want to suggest that LFI's platform could be reconciled with his own project, which he will begin to present on June 23. He gave Le Monde a preview.
