For Bernard Arnault, the benefits of expanding in China outweigh the risks. Hundreds of millions of potential luxury consumers are expected to emerge there in the coming years, and he has positioned his designers to target them wsj.com/business/retai… The Wall Street Journal Nick Kostov Stacy Meichtry

In Paris too, journalists ran in solidarity with Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been detained in Russia for a year now. #IStandWithEvan Stacy Meichtry Mimosa Spencer Noemie Bisserbe Sam Schechner

It’s been one year since our colleague Evan Gershkovich was wrongfully detained in Russia for doing his job: journalism. #IRunForEvan #IStandWithEvan

France’s Macron has defied the U.S. and Germany by pushing NATO countries to consider all options in Ukraine, unsettling the alliance. wsj.com/world/europe/m… via The Wall Street Journal

France’s Emmanuel Macron has defied the U.S. and Germany by pushing NATO countries to consider all options in Ukraine, unsettling the alliance. We chart his metamorphosis from a dove to a (rhetorical) superhawk with Stacy Meichtry wsj.com/world/europe/m… via The Wall Street Journal

"China’s Xi Shouldn’t Expect an Easy Ride in Europe This Time—France’s Macron is expected to confront the Chinese leader during a visit this week" Noemie Bisserbe laurence norman Austin Ramzy Thomas Grove B. Benoit Stacy Meichtry wsj.com/world/chinas-x… wsj.com/world/chinas-x…

In calling snap elections, Emmanuel Macron is gambling that Le Pen’s victory on Sunday will produce a backlash among voters who will form yet another “Republican front” at the polls to keep her forces out of office. wsj.com/world/europe/f… via The Wall Street Journal

The question now looming over Emmanuel Macron is whether he will go down in history as the man who ushered Marine Le Pen and her far-right party to the threshold of power in France. wsj.com/world/europe/m… via The Wall Street Journal Stacy Meichtry Noemie Bisserbe

Macron’s one time mentor, Alain Minc, has strong words on the “historic error” France’s president has committed by calling early elections. He says Macron is living in a world of “fiction” to think he has a chance of winning. Post-election, the best France can hope for is chaos.

🇫🇷🇮🇹 The far-R National Rally’s Jordan Bardella reminds me of the Italian far-R — the League & Brothers of Italy — for his shape-shifting. Great profile ⁦Stacy Meichtry⁩ ⁦Noemie Bisserbe⁩ wsj.com/world/europe/j…

Instead of bringing "clarification," Macron’s snap elections have driven France into a political fog. Avoiding a hung parliament will be hard in a lower house divided in three by large blocs with diametrically opposed agendas. w/ Noemie Bisserbe wsj.com/world/europe/f…

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"And we're off to a rocky start...."

France's blissed-out sports minister on the experience of swimming in the swill-adjacent waters of the Seine: "It's really emotional. It's even sweet. It's good, 20 degrees Celsius. Uhm... Awesome!"

Scattered showers and intrepid reporting at the opening ceremony of #Olympics2024

Honored to share a wave with Joshua Robinson on this one.

Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva, Paul Whelan. Free. Amazing. #IStandWithEvan

Unearthing this tweet from Evan Gershkovich, the last one he wrote before his unjust detention. So much has transpired since you were gone. Welcome back, Evan.

A very French cheer squad at USA vs Serbia at the #ParisOlympics2024

BREAKING NEWS from Paris. #olympics2024