Ukraine’s foreign minister
“I thanked 🇫🇷 for the steps it took in the past to provide 🇺🇦 with additional air defense and urged 🇫🇷 to step up its efforts to provide 🇺🇦 with new systems capable of intercepting ballistic missiles.

Both Kyiv and Paris know where those systems are”

The enthusiasm with which parts of the 🇫🇷 media invite Russian officials (here Alexei Mechkov, 🇷🇺 ambassador to Paris) for interviews is breathtaking

The JDD explains its “exclusive” to 🇫🇷 readers “It's always wise to listen to those whom our president refers to as adversaries”

What is your opinion of Emmanuel Macron?
Positive:
🇷🇴 57%
🇬🇷 55%
🇩🇪 53%
🇩🇰 52%
🇳🇱 50%
🇫🇷 ............28%

Another day, another Russian disinformation attack on France. Here Macron calls “baroque” and “ridiculous” Shoigu’s insinuation that France was behind the Crocus City Hall attack. “Without doubt”, he said, Russia is targeting France in particular ahead of the Paris Olympic Games

Until 50 years ago, CO₂ emissions developed in lockstep with economic growth in France.

Since the early 1970s, the opposite has been true: emissions declined as people in France got richer.

The French arms industry is finally accelerating output. On a visit with Secretary Antony Blinken to Nexter, the 🇫🇷defence minister says the firm has now upped production of Caesar canons from 2/month to 6/month, and should reach 12/month shortly

🇫🇷 and 🇺🇸lead the artillery coaltion for 🇺🇦

France will on April 4th unveil its elegant new aquatics centre in Seine-Saint-Denis, as part of an effort to use the games to improve infrastructure in the northern Paris banlieue.

At the age of ten, half of local children do not know how to swim ⬇️

economist.com/europe/2024/03…

“Until 1956 French schools were allowed to serve wine to children under 14. Today a quarter of French 18-to 34-year-olds say they never drink alcohol and 39% of the under-35s say that they do not drink wine.”

Weekend read The Economist : Why even the French are drinking less🍷

“Some people have compared the images of my visit to Brazil to those of a wedding, I tell them: it was one! France loves Brazil and Brazil loves France!”

With the 78 CAESAR cannons financed by 🇲🇫, 🇩🇰 and 🇺🇦, and not counting new losses, Ukraine should have a fleet of more than 120 CAESARs. That’s a lot more than the Armée de Terre.