From a surprisingly sensitive reaction to more French electoral speculations, a bump protest and why France is being linked in knots to lower the flag for the Pope, within France it is our weekly newsletter looking at the latest news and conversation points of France.
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Touché a nerf?
The president’s Elysée Palace touches the relatively rare step this week of not only issuing a denial to news, but even to a small elegant graph to declare the ‘false’ history.
The article in question, of the American departure Bloomberg, suggested that Emmanuel Macron is considering dissolving the Parliament in autumn to celebrate more rapid elections, as he did last year. The Elysée has denied this.
The issue is if France will have a new round of parliamentary elections in 2025, it has a topic of discussion in the bone for months, with many French experts who consider inevitable, since the position of Parlieste remembers Dad.
If they happen, they cannot be held before July, since the Constitution stipulates a minimum of one year among the parliamentary elections, and it would be unusual for France to celebrate the elections during the traditional summer holiday period of July/August, so autumn has always been considered the most likely time.
The boxes, maybe only hundreds of hundreds, or the items have one leg written in the French media about this in recent months, so why such a strong reaction to the Bloomberg piece?
It may be that many international commentators assumed that they referred to a presidential election, not a parliamentary choice, and that Macron himself could be renouncing, something that always has a clear leg that does not intend to do, insisting on Born’s experience.
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Secular contortions
France has once again looted ITELF in a row of secularism, this time on whether the flags must fly in the middle of the mast in state buildings on Saturday, the day of the funeral of the late Pope Francis.
Critics say that France, as a secular country, should not pay tribute to a religious leader, while supporters say that the Pope has a diplomatic and religious role and should be treated as a foreign head of state.
Apparently, the same conversation occurred in 2005 when Pope Jean-Paul II died and so far, so French. But I cannot avoid noticing that several of the strongest defenders of reducing the flag are the people who, in the name of secularism, are eager to strongly restrict the rights of Muslim women to choose what they use.
The beginning without guilt of lava Used as a heginal blade by people who simply hate Muslims? Say that is not the case. . .
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Chickens nests
It may have passed its Easter weekend participating in a Chasse Aux Oeufs (Egg search) or search Les Cloches VolantsBut a group of French cyclists chose to go around leaving chocolate eggs in potholes on the roads.
This protest, aimed at drawing attention to the poor state of many minor roads in rural France, makes much more sense when you remember that the French word for bump is quite adorable. Nid-de-Poule (Gallina nest).
French favors
Just before Easter, I found myself unexpectedly according to the Interior Minister of the Hard Line of France, Bruno Retailleau, who was giving a speech about French citizenship.
Most of what he said was not meaningless because, like the populists of the world, he does not understand the immigration system of his own or does not.
But between asking that the candidates for citizenship, it is required that they have a minimum level of French (already do, and that level rose last year) and that they have knowledge of the history, politics and culture of France (which are already proven through an interview in person), an interesting thing said: that French citizenship is a privilege, not a right.
And when it comes to foreigners who request to become French, not people who were born here, which is a totally different system, I agree, and I speak as some that are currently going through that different and long process.
Opinion: French citizenship must be a privilege, not a right
PD: Our Talking France podcast is taking a short break to get a chocolate eggs, but will return next week looking at the latest French news.
Within France is our weekly gaze of some of the news, conversation points and gossip in France of which you may not have heard. It is published every Saturday and the members can recover it directly on their entrance tray, going to their newsletter preferences or adding their email to the registration box in this article.
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