Jurgen Hecker

1 week ago | barrons.com | Ulrike Koltermann |Jurgen Hecker |Alice Hackman

French President Emmanuel Macron and Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed Wednesday to ramp up security cooperation in the face of Russian threats, as the new German leader visited Paris on his first trip abroad. Europe is seeking to bolster its defences amid Moscow's invasion of Ukraine and doubts over US security commitments to Europe under President Donald Trump, though Merz insisted that any peace deal in Ukraine required an American commitment.

1 week ago | sg.news.yahoo.com | Pierre Celerier |Jurgen Hecker

France, EU take aim at Trump's assault on science, seek to lure US researchersThe EU hopes to attract researchers, especially from Trump's United States (Gonzalo Fuentes) (Gonzalo Fuentes/POOL/AFP)French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen took aim at Donald Trump's policies on science on Monday, as the European Union seeks to encourage disgruntled US researchers to relocate to Europe.

1 week ago | ibtimes.com | Pierre Celerier |Jurgen Hecker

French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen took aim at Donald Trump's policies on science on Monday, as the European Union seeks to encourage disgruntled US researchers to relocate to Europe. Von der Leyen told a conference at Paris's Sorbonne university that the EU would launch a new incentives package worth 500 million euros ($567 million) to make the 27-nation bloc "a magnet for researchers". "We have to offer the right incentives," she said.

1 week ago | enca.com | Pierre Celerier |Jurgen Hecker

PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen took aim at Donald Trump's policies on science on Monday, as the European Union seeks to encourage disgruntled US researchers to relocate to Europe.

2 months ago | dailygazette.com | Tiphaine Le Liboux |Jurgen Hecker |Mikhail Klimentyev

Actor Gerard Depardieu is under investigation for aggravated tax fraud in France, a source close to the case told AFP on Monday. The 76-year-old actor, already accused in a string of sexual assault and rape cases, is suspected of falsely declaring his tax residency to be in Belgium since 2013, the source said. A probe of his tax status, opened this month by financial crime prosecutors, has involved raids in France and Belgium as well as police interviews, the source said.