Victor Goury-Laffont
Politics Reporter at POLITICO Europe
Politics reporter for @POLITICOEurope in Paris / [email protected]
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1 week ago |
politico.eu | Judith Chetrit |Victor Goury-Laffont
PARIS — The French Agriculture Ministry is facing heat for suggesting racially motivated casting choices in an organic foods advertisement. Emails seen by POLITICO show that Agriculture Minister Annie Genevard's office asked that the production company in charge of the ad "cast a Caucasian" first scene of the ad. While the emails do not define the actor's ethnicity, a slideshow from the production company includes a photograph of an adolescent who is not white.
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1 week ago |
politico.eu | Victor Goury-Laffont
Mounting a successful presidential bid after such an unceremonious end to his premiership is a long shot. The 74-year-old would need to make the case to French voters that he would be best placed to lead France in an increasingly uncertain global order despite having failed to navigate a fragmented political landscape domestically. Barnier ran for president in 2022, but fell at the first hurdle, placing third in his conservative Les Républicains party’s internal primary.
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1 week ago |
politico.eu | Max Griera |Victor Goury-Laffont
Paradol told POLITICO that he had served as both a part-time local parliamentary assistant and Bardella’s chief of staffduring his previous term as an MEP, which ended in 2024, and had had no problem establishing a division of labor between the two jobs. The issue only came to the fore when it was time to renew his contract over the summer, after the new Parliament was sworn in.
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2 weeks ago |
politico.eu | Victor Goury-Laffont
PARIS — French Industry Minister Marc Ferracci warned Wednesday that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s upcoming trip to meet U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to undermine European unity against American tariffs. "We need to be united because Europe is strong if it's united," Ferracci told broadcaster FranceInfo.
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Victor Goury-Laffont
1 hour agoDonald Trump’s New Hot Take On His Tariffs Sparks 1 Hell Of An Eye-Roll OnlineThe president claimed his use of the description was "positive," but critics begged to differ.
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