https://freerepublic.com/tag/folie/ en-us Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:42:51 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4395323/posts Two wars have cut France off from supplies of natural gas. First the Ukraine War shutting off the flow of Russian gas in 2022 now Middle East gas supplies disrupted by the Iran War. On October 1st the price of natural gas in France will rise on average 6.3 percent. This follows a 5.6 percent rise on September 1st... France joined the UK and Canada along with nine other countries in imposing sanctions on Israeli nationalist settlements this week. Israel bristled at the decision with immediate retaliation against the UK... France has also weighed in on the tensions between Israel... Nextrush Free https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4395323/posts#comment Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:42:51 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4394397/posts The Presidential Election year budget in France to be considered in the coming months with opinion polling this week pushing the notion of public support for cutting spending. The opinion poll conducted by the government itself with 40 percent respondents speaking of France's current financial situation as "very worrying'. That is up five percent from January... South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung on a four-day visit to France starting tomorrow. President Lee and French President Emmnuel Macron discussing security and economic connections between France and South Korea... France's increasingly confrontational stance towards China reflected in the new rules imposing fees... Nextrush Free https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4394397/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2026 03:25:59 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4393603/posts New polling last weekend put Marine Le Pen in a very favorable position to win the Presidential Election next spring. The National Rally (RN) candidate well ahead in a first round of voting at 35-38 percent of the vote. Her closet rival leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon of La France Insoumise (LFI) at 16-17 percent. If the two moved into a second-round Marine Le Pen would easily defeat Mr. Melenchon 64-36 percent... New polling out this weekend done for BFM-TV confirming the strength of Marine Le Pen. She beats all potential second round opponents including the best-positioned centrist Edouard Philippe... Seven presidential... Nextrush Free https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4393603/posts#comment Sun, 30 Aug 2026 02:14:50 GMT