+++ The Front National party will be prosecuted for alleged fraud at the European Parliament. Marine Le Pen had already been charged with the same case. She has no intention of quitting her political career:
“As long as my country needs me, I’ll be there”.
+++ At this week’s
Euro Summit in Brussels, Macron
will most probably take over Merkel’s position as Europe’s most influential leader. France became the EU’s most powerful country, according to a
matrix by Politico. Brits will not be happy: their country is left with zero power.
+++ François Ruffin, a left-wing MP and a publisher, was fined
1,378 euros for wearing a football shirt in the Assemblée. In a speech, he pleaded to increase the budget for amateur sports.
+++ After the last general election, no less than
1405 political assistants and party employees were laid off. There’s no need to feel sorry for them: they received a total of 36 million euros in severance pay, and many found new jobs as a consultant or as lobbyists.
+++ The trial against former minister Georges Tron started on Monday. Tron was forced to resign in 2011 after several women accused him of sexual assault.
+++ Two weeks ago, I reported that former Prime Minister François Fillon had finally found a job in the real world. Last week, the fanatical car enthusiast got another appointment. He became the chairman of the Constructors’ Committee at the
FIA, the International Motorsports Federation.
+++ The extreme-right mayor Robert Menard, from the southern town of
Béziers, wants a TGV station. He, thus, launched a campaign that was
so tasteless, that several police reports were filed against him.
+++ Jean-Luc Mélenchon, party leader of the extreme left-wing
Insoumis, started a
petition. He is angry about the
“liars, the cheaters” working for the public broadcaster
France Télévisions. Due to his dissatisfaction with the hacks, the politician launched his own ‘independent’ medium this week, modestly named
Le Média.
+++ Philippe Leglise-Costa is
France’s new ambassador to the European Union. Read about why this is an important transfer
here.
+++ Still looking for Christmas gifts? Order a
Macron Action figure. Or perhaps this more decorative piece, a
tasteful snow globe with the young President’s effigy.