FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 327*MACRON SLAMS RUSSIA, PUTIN AS TRUMP SEEKS PEACE IN UKRAINE*LEGISLATION TO BAN RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS IN SPORT*NATIONAL RALLY LEADER BACKS OUT OF CPAC SPEECH*KNIFE ATTACK*

 

           (NEWS, COMMENT AND ANALYSIS WITH MAINSTREAM MEDIA SOURCES)

          "existential threat to Europe"

French President Emmanuel Macron's characterization of Russia on Tuesday.

Macron speaking in a media interview about threats from Russia related to everything from cyber-attacks to manifestations of Antisemitism in France.

He said he was bringing together various parliamentary groups to discuss the Russian threat...

"Macron denounces the 'existential threat' of Russia and announces 'bringing together parliamentary groups and parties"-BFM-TV (Translation Prompt)

TAKING TO SOCIAL MEDIA ON THURSDAY PRESIDENT MACRON ECHOED UKRAINE'S TALKING POINTS ON CONFLICT WITH RUSSIA.

IN THE FACE OF US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S PEACE PUSH MACRON INSISTING THAT HE TOO WANTED PEACE.

MR. MACRON DID NOT RULE OUT THE USE OF FRENCH TROOPS IN THE AFTERMATH OF A PEACE DEAL TO END THE UKRAINE WAR.

MACRON CALLING FOR INCREASED EUROPEAN EFFORTS WHEN IT COMES TO DEFENSE.

MACRON SAYING HIS POSITION FOR THIS COMING WEEK'S MEETING WITH US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IS THAT ONE CANNOT BE 'WEAK WITH PUTIN' BECAUSE OF CHINA...

"Sending Troops, Donald Trump...What To Remember From Emmanuel Macron's Speech On Ukraine"-BFM-TV (Translation Prompt)

PRESIDENT MACRON SET TO MEET PRESIDENT TRUMP AT THE WHITE HOUSE ON MONDAY.

Legislation to ban head scarves and other 'religious symbols' in sport considered in France's Senate this week.    The Senate is controlled by the Mainstream Conservative Les Republicains  (The Republicans).

The legislation reflective of both France's secular tradition and hostility to mass migration of Muslims into the country.

Amnesty International denounced the legislation as discriminatory...

"French bill would ban headscarves in sport: Amnesty International says it's discriminatory"-Fox News

The President of the National Rally and the RN's second most prominent politician behind Marine Le Pen, Jordan Bardella, found himself in the United States yesterday to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

But Bardella backed out over the Nazi-style clenched fist salute given by another CPAC speaker former aide to President Donald Trump Steve Bannon.

Bardella was labeled a "coward" for backing out by Bannon.

CPAC has taken on a 'global conservative' aura recently with its most prominent French guest speaker being the less nationalistic and more capitalistic Marion Marechal.

Marechal is the politically estranged niece of Marine Le Pen who worked with the Reconquete political movement in recent years.

THIS AFTERNOON A PROTEST RALLY BY 'LES PATRIOTES' THE POLITICAL PARTY THAT BROKE AWAY FROM THE NATIONAL RALLY AND SEEKS FRANCE'S EXIT FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION....LES PATRIOTES RALLY PARIS 2/22/2025 LIVE VIDEO STREAM

Today French President Emmanuel Macron at the Farm Show in Paris with an opening speech supportive of France's troubled agricultural industry.

But French farmers see multinational business and multinational trade threating their ability to make a living.

Protests across France in the last year opposing a 'free trade' deal with the MERCOSUR nations of South America that would flood France's grocery stores with foreign products...

     FRANCE 24 VIDEO REPORT ON MACRON VISIT TO AGRICULTURAL EXPO

A KNIFE ATTACK IN MULHOUSE IN EASTERN FRANCE NEAR THE GERMAN BORDER THIS AFTRNOON ONE KILLED TWO OTHERS WOUNDED.

THE ATTACKER YELLED 'ALLAHU AKBAR' BEFORE POLICE ARRESTED HIM.

THE 37-YEAR-OLD SAID TO BE UNDER AN OBLIGATION TO LEAVE FRANCE.

PRESIDENT MACRON CALLING THE ATTACK 'AN ACT OF ISLAMIST TERRORISM'...

"Mulhouse: Knife Attack Leaves One Dead And Two Injured, Individual Listed For Terrorism Arrested"-BFM-TV (Translation Prompt)

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