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WHEN EMMANUEL MACRON met with Vladimir Putin in August 2019 at Fort Bregançon, the French president's statements about the necessity of creating with Russia "a European space from Lisbon to Vladivostok" caused a brief but resounding stir among the international press. In most EU and NATO countries, the responses were circumspect or critical. As might have been expected, the most negative assessments of these statements came from Great Britain, Poland, the Baltic countries, and (outside the EU and NATO) from Ukraine.
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ID:
169527
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ELECTIONS to the European Parliament that took place on May 23-26. 2019 reflected the far from simple processes that have been unfolding in the European Union for several years now. They confirmed the desire of a fairly big number of voters to see new people among the political elites. The Right and Left centrists that had dominated the parliament for many years lost their traditional majority and, therefore, the chance to elect the chairman among themselves. This was not the only surprise.
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149704
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FRANCE PLAYED A SPECIAL ROLE in developing the Syrian statehood partly through the notorious Sykes-Picot Agreement (that, in all justice, should have been called the Sykes-Picot-Sazonov* Agreement) signed by the UK, France and Russia in 1916 in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) that was moving under French control (in case of the Entente's victory in World War One) practically the entire territory of what is now Syria and Lebanon and part of Iraq with the city of Mosul on it. Officially annulled in 1917, when the Bolshevist government of Russia had published the secret agreements of the Entente, it was, on the whole, realized (with the exception of the "Russian segment"). France lost its Iraqi "share" to Great Britain in exchange for the right to extract oil in Mosul.
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ID:
155346
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THE FRENCH MEDIA wrote about the 2017 presidential campaign in France as unprecedented: for the first time in the history of the Fifth Republic, it was neck-and-neck race of four candidates in the first round of election. Emmanuel Macron who posed as an independent candidate got 24.1% of the votes; President of the National Front Marine Le Pen. 21.3%; nominee of the Republicans Fran�ois Fillon finished with 20.1%. and the leader of extreme left Jean-Luc Mélenchon with 19.58% was the last of the four at the finishing line.1 The extent of disorientation of the French electorate and the unprecedented split were amply confirmed in the second round by the fairly good results of Marine Le Pen (33.9%) confronted by practically all political forces of France; by the much lower turnout - 74.56% against 77.77% in the first round - and a much bigger share of votes blancs: 4.86 million or 11.52%.
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ID:
140581
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Russian media have paid quite a lot of attention to the April 2014 resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) that deprived the Russian delegation of its right to vote, a move that, in effect, was upheld by PACE in January 2015.
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