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Bored of your beach read? Dive into these politicians’ steamy novels

From Brussels to Westminster, top European politicians have turned their experiences into steamy novels, mixing romance, scandal, and risqué fantasies. Diplomats, ministers, and MPs reveal a surprising, erotic side behind the political curtain.

Euronews

Who's in, and out, in France's new government?

President Emmanuel Macron has reshuffled ministers in key domestic portfolios such as education, housing and urban affairs in a bid to put the government in a stronger position to continue its reform programme and respond to recent riots. The 41-strong cabinet has eight new members, with more traditional MPs and…

Radio France Internationale

French minister in hot seat over allegations her foundation embezzled public money

French minister Marlène Schiappa gave testimony on Wednesday in a Senate inquiry over allegations that a fund to fight religious extremism she managed funnelled public money to people close to her.

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French minister Schiappa quizzed by Senate over 'Marianne Fund' payments

During three hours of grilling by a Senate committee, the minister for the social economy and associations, Marlène Schiappa, denied Wednesday that she had favoured the main beneficiary of the "Marianne Fund" an entity she helped set up in the spring of 2021.

Radio France Internationale

French minister’s steamy novel turns up heat on Macron

Sex scene in Bruno Le Maire’s book provokes ridicule and anger among opposition politicians

The Guardian - UK

French finance minister raises eyebrows with racy novel, 'Fugue américaine'

A new novel by French President Emmanuel Macron's Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire – containing one breathlessly erotic passage that has gone viral – has forced the government to explain how he finds the time for such a project in a period of economic trouble for so many.

France 24

French minister criticised over Playboy photoshoot

A French government minister has retorted that "women are free" after her decision to appear on the cover of Playboy magazine sparked outrage. Marlène

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Who is Marlène Schiappa? French minister to appear on Playboy

The minister will appear in the 8 April issue of Playboy

The Independent UK

French minister sparks backlash with Playboy cover

A French government minister has sparked a political row after she appeared – fully clothed – on the cover of Playboy magazine.

The Week

French minister sparks anger with Playboy cover

A French government minister has sparked a political row after she appeared – fully clothed – on the cover of Playboy magazine.

The Week

Naked anger as French minister poses on front page of Playboy

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has called Junior Social Affairs Minister Marlène Schiappa to tell her that Schiappa's interview in the April/June edition of Playboy magazine is not at all appropriate in the current climate of strikes and economic hardship.

Radio France Internationale

French minister sparks controversy by appearing – clothed – on the cover of Playboy

Can posing for Playboy be a feminist statement? A French government minister thinks so and has defended her decision to appear – clothed – on the front cover of the magazine amid a crisis in French politics not seen for several years.

France 24

Marlène Schiappa: Macron Govt Adopted Innovative Measures to Protect Women against Violence

Marlène Schiappa, the French Minister Delegate for Citizenship, occupies a unique position in the government. Even though she does not hold a sovereign portfolio, she has left her mark politically and in the media and in the cabinet for reviving the meaning of "citizenship". Born in 1982, the young minister…

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