REVEALED: 11 - The Real Truth

Macron’s big European Parliament loss

This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about the European Parliament elections. There’s “The Listener’s Corner” and Erwan Rome’s “Music from Erwan – all that and the new quiz and bonus questions too, so click on the “Play” button above and enjoy!

Radio France Internationale · Jul 13, 2024

French trade union boss hints at protests during Olympics if left is kept from power

Emmanuel Macron is in denial about the result of France’s snap election, leader of the CGT union says

The Independent UK · Jul 11, 2024

Germany’s AfD and extremist allies set up second EU parliament far-right group

Europe of Sovereign Nations group could prove more extreme than existing Fidesz-National Rally grouping

The Guardian - UK · Jul 11, 2024

'Contained but not stopped': French far right takes record number of seats in parliament

Marine Le Pen on Wednesday said her far-right National Rally party’s accession to power was only "postponed", despite its third-place finish in the July 7 second round of the legislative elections. Although the party elected a record number of deputies to the National Assembly, its weaknesses were also exposed during…

France 24 · Jul 10, 2024

France’s Macron slams Israeli minister’s backing of Marine Le Pen

Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli publicly supported Marine Le Pen before France’s recent election.

Al Jazeera · Jul 10, 2024

French election: it’s impossible to know what sort of government might emerge from the current state of chaos

There were scenes of joy at the Place de la République in Paris when many thousands of people who were gathered to wait for the result of recent French election discovered that Marine Le Pen’s far-right coalition has not succeeded in taking control of the national assembly. Many outside the…

The Conversation · Jul 10, 2024

What is the New Popular Front, surprise winner of France's election?

Formed in haste to keep the far right out of power, the left-wing New Popular Front defied expectations to take the lead in snap elections and become the biggest bloc in France's new parliament. Who is in the alliance? What do they stand for? And now that the immediate danger…

Radio France Internationale · Jul 10, 2024

Macron urges new mainstream coalition, Leftist alliance warns against ‘machinations’

Several lawmakers from the New Popular Front have reacted to Macron’s letter calling for mainstream parties to form a coalition by saying that he should accept the leftist alliance’s pick for prime minister and allow the bloc to form a government. The newly elected MPs see the president’s “machinations” as…

France 24 · Jul 10, 2024

Le Pen, Orban and the ‘Patriots for Europe’: Is the EU being undermined from within?

Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party this week joined forces with the camp of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to form a powerful new far-right bloc in the EU parliament. The group, Patriots for Europe, will be led by Jordan Bardella, Le Pen’s 28-year-old protégé. With 84 EU lawmakers…

France 24 · Jul 9, 2024

French investigators probe far-right leader Le Pen's 2022 campaign finances

French investigators are looking into far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen's 2022 campaign finances for an election she lost to President Emmanuel Macron, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

Radio France Internationale · Jul 9, 2024