(NEWS, COMMENT, ANALYSIS WITH MAINSTREAM MEDIA SOURCES)
Major employers in France hiring fewer people this year. 153,000 as opposed to 182,000 last year.
L'Usine Nouvelle's annual survey compiled in spite of many refusals to participate. Business leaders said to be reluctant to express themselves in a period of economic uncertainty....
An Artificial Intelligence summit brought world leaders to Paris this week including India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US Vice-President JD Vance.
The United States and the United Kingdom refusing to sign an international agreement to restrict AI development.
The US citing concerns about stifling a new emerging industry while the UK brought up issues of 'national security' and 'global stability.'
Vice-President Vance was accompanied on the trip by his wife Usha and his three children.
As they departed France Thursday for the Munich Security Conference Vance stopped to have his picture taken with various officials including groups of French police involved in providing him security...
Mr. Vance made a passionate speech concerning the threat to Europe 'from within' on Friday in Munich and met with Alternative for Germany leader Alice Weidel demonstrating a direct challenge to Germany's government nine days before its election.
It appears the Trump Administration challenge to France's existing government comes from indirect sources like the online influencer Candace Owens who continued her series online this week critical of President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte.
Owens efforts helping to promote the "Becoming Brigitte" book which presents a narrative of corruption, deceit and intrigue regarding the Macrons...Candace Owens "X"...Amazon UK "Becoming Brigitte" Book
ON FRIDAY NEWS REPORTS ABOUT PRIME MINISTER FRANCOIS BAYROU IMPLICATING HIM WITH KNOWLEDGE OF A SEX ABUSE CASE AT A CATHOLIC SCHOOL IN THE 1990'S.
BAYROU WAS MINISTER OF EDUCATION AT THE TIME AND HIS WIFE A TEACHER AT THE NOTRE-DAME DE BETHARRAM SECONDARY SCHOOL.
A JUDGE INVOLVED IN THE CASE SAID HE DISCUSSED DETAILS WITH MR. BAYROU AT THE TIME.
(UPDATE) TODAY MR. BAYROU MEETING WITH A FAMILIES OF VICTIMS GROUP...
THIS AFTERNOON IN PARIS PROTEST WITH A YELLOW VESTS GROUP IN THE STREETS.
SEVERAL LARGE FRENCH FLAGS IN THE GROUP OF DOZENS DEMONSTRATING THIS AFTERNOON.
On Monday in Paris an 'emergency summit' on Ukraine hosted by President Emmanuel Macron with participants including British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
The meeting billed as one to keep Europe involved in Ukraine as US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin move towards an agreement to end the war.
Underlying the talks the notion of troops being deployed to Ukraine an idea discussed by Mr. Macron and other European nations in the past.
This notion of a European military force figures in the discussion but how that fits with any deal Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin come up with remains to be seen.
Regardless the European nations and the UK will likely be fleshing out details of a military buildup by their countries in line with Mr. Trump's call for other NATO countries to spend 5 percent of their GDP on national defense...
For now that's story of France and the Yellow Vests.
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