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Veteran French conservative Michel Barnier has taken over as prime minister, almost two months after France's snap elections ended in political stalemate.
He said France had come to a "serious moment" and he was facing it with humility: "All political forces will have to be respected and listened to, and I mean all."
President Emmanuel Macron named the EU's former chief Brexit negotiator, ending weeks of talks with political parties and potential candidates.
Mr Barnier, 73, arrived at the prime minister's residence at Hôtel Matignon in Paris on Thursday evening, taking over the role from Gabriel Attal, France's youngest ever prime minister who has been in office for the past eight months.
His immediate task will be to form a government that can survive a National Assembly divided into three big political blocs, with none able to form a clear majority.
But Mr Barnier will need all his political skills to navigate the coming weeks, with the centre-left Socialists already planning to challenge his appointment with a vote of confidence.
He said he would respond in the coming days to the "challenges, the anger and the sense of being abandoned and of injustice that run through our towns and countryside".
He promised to tell the truth to the French people about the financial and environmental challenges facing the country, and to work with "all those in good faith" towards great respect and unity.
It has taken President Macron 60 days to make up his mind on choosing a prime minister, having called a "political truce" during the Paris Olympics.
In his farewell speech outside Hôtel Matignon, Gabriel Attal said "French politics is sick, but a cure is possible, provided that we all agree to move away from sectarianism".
Having led the marathon talks on the UK's exit from the European Union between 2016 and 2019, Mr Barnier has considerable experience of political deadlock. He has had a long political career in France as well as the EU and has long been part of the right-wing Republicans (LR) party.
Known in France as Monsieur Brexit, he is France's oldest prime minister since the Fifth Republic came into being in 1958.
Three years ago, he tried and failed to become his party's candidate to take on President Macron for the French presidency. He said he wanted to limit and take control of immigration.
Mr Macron's presidency lasts until 2027. Normally the government comes from the president's party, as they are elected weeks apart.
But the man who has called himself "the master of the clocks" changed that when he called snap elections in June and his centrists came second to the left-wing New Popular Front.
President Macron has interviewed several potential candidates for the role of prime minister, but his task was complicated by the need to come up with a name who could survive a so-called censure vote on their first appearance in the National Assembly.
The Elysée Palace said that by appointing Mr Barnier, the president had ensured that the prime minister and future government would offer the greatest possible stability and the broadest possible unity.
Mr Barnier had been given the task of forming a unifying government "in the service of the country and the French people", the presidency stressed.
Mr Barnier's initial challenge as prime minister will be to steer through France's 2025 budget and he has until 1 October to submit a draft plan to the National Assembly.
Gabriel Attal has already been working on a provisional budget over the summer, but getting it past MPs will require all Mr Barnier's political skills.
His nomination has already caused discontent within the New Popular Front (NFP), whose own candidate for prime minister was rejected by the president.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of the radical France Unbowed (LFI) - the biggest of the four parties that make up the NFP - said the election had been "stolen from the French people".
Instead of coming from the the alliance that came first on 7 July, he complained that the prime minister would be "a member of a party that came last", referring to the Republicans.
"This is now essentially a Macron-Le Pen government," said Mr Mélenchon, referring to the leader of the far-right National Rally (RN).
He then called for people to join a left-wing protest against Mr Macron's decision planned for Saturday.
To survive a vote of confidence, Mr Barnier will need to persuade 289 MPs in the 577-seat National Assembly to back his government.
Marine Le Pen has made clear her party will not take part in his administration, but she said he at least appeared to meet National Rally's initial requirement, as someone who "respected different political forces".
Jordan Bardella, the 28-year-old president of the RN, said Mr Barnier would be judged on his words, his actions and his decisions on France's next budget, which has to be put before parliament by 1 October.
He cited the cost of living, security and immigration as major emergencies for the French people, adding that "we hold all means of political action in reserve if this is not the case in the coming weeks".
Mr Barnier is likely to attract support from the president's centrist Ensemble alliance. Macron ally Yaël Braun-Pivet, who is president of the National Assembly, congratulated the nominee and said MPs would now have to play their full part: "Our mandate obliges us to."
The former Brexit negotiator had only emerged as a potential candidate late on Wednesday afternoon.
Until then, two other experienced politicians had been touted as most likely candidates: former Socialist prime minister Bernard Cazeneuve and Republicans regional leader Xavier Bertrand. But it soon became apparent that neither would have survived a vote of confidence.
That was Mr Macron's explanation for turning down the left-wing candidate, Lucie Castets, a senior civil servant in Paris who he said would have fallen at the first hurdle.
The president has been widely criticised for igniting France's political crisis.
A recent opinion poll suggested that 51% of French voters thought the president should resign.
There is little chance of that, but the man Mr Macron picked as his first prime minister in 2017, Édouard Philippe, has now put his name forward three years early for the next presidential election.
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I'm grieving so badly over the quotes I remember that I never got to write down, so I'm going to draw a bunch of doodles with the quotes I still remember before I thankfully forget it forever. And to the people doing gcses right now, let's celebrate the end of having to memorise quotes from british plays by getting sloshed over champers and then drink more seeing as we have more exams this week!!! :D
(Edexcel gave us easier questions than I thought, I don't know what I was so worried about, hahah...)
#also good luck to those doing french listening tomorrow!#hetalia#hws england#hws france#i want to make AIC au SO bad#arthur is so arthur birling coded#idc what anyone says. mr birling has arthurs name on it#its written in fate#i have so many other doodles and stuff but i thought to make that a seperate post lmao#i might also ramble on about r&j and aic now that i can ACTUALLY enjoy it like a psychopath#hetalia england#hetalia france#aph england#aph france#my art
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Two pics of my knight in shining armor that I drew today
#not a clothing store#chappell roan#chappell roan vma#joan of arc#tarot#the high priestess#pomegranate#rise and fall of a midwest princess#good luck babe#hot to go#red wine supernova#chappell#roan of arc#knight#france#arthurian legend#camelot#vma#vans#artists on tumblr#art
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They should be in Heartstopper no need to explain @chronicintrovert
#i hope someone sees me#Spotify#chapell roan#hot to go#good luck babe#casual#naked in manhattan#heartstopper#charlie spring#alice oseman#nick and charlie#radio silence#kit connor#nick nelson#aled last#frances janvier#osemanverse
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i always complain about poland but the fact that i was able to book a dentist appointment this morning for this afternoon (and there were multiple slots available?) is really fucking great
#like good luck in france (maybe except paris) to find a doctor when it’s urgent#you simply will have to suffer!!!#the right side of my teeth is aching it’s really uncomfortable#the dentist gave me antibiotics#amoxicillin my beloved <3 it always works on me!!
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clown on clown violence.
#euro 2024#euros 2024#good luck to us in this next half let us try to stay awake#france nt#belgium nt
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listening to lesbian bops to convince me to go outside
#chappell roan#Tired#good luck babe#Lunch#billie eilish#Girl in red#Frances Forever#Claire#chloe moriondo
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One guy that I root for fell and lost time and the other got 2nd...
#wout van aert#primoz roglic#tour de france#tour de france 2024#im asking for one smidgen of good luck
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Oh my god haikyuu is so right volleyball is so FUNNNN
#my post#personal ramblings in the tags so dont read if u dont care abt volleyball lol#i went to the Japan vs France match for this year's VNL#and GOD this match was so intense#can u imagine how it feels to watch japan lose the first two sets? everyone was like “its so over...😔”#AND THEN#they come back and win three sets consecutively?????#the whole crowd went wild. we're so back🥳!!!#the friend i went with knew nobody when we went in and she left an ishikawa stan. AS SHE SHOULD#why is yuki ishikawa literally god tier. sir was just racking up points#and miyaura was amazing <3 he was also amazing against France last year so maybe he just gets buffed when playing against them sjdkdmdssds#the cheering was so loud i love when the crowd gets hyped#yamauchi and kentaro did really well too! i think they both got 6 points apiece yassss those are MY middle blockers#i hope Nishida gets better tho :(( it seemed that he got injured in the first set. he was lying on the floor and everything#anyway good luck to team japan at the olympics soon!!#i'll b rooting for them again#volleyball#vnl 2024#ryujin nippon
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Unwound Future in modern day France
Clive : President Bill Hawks killed 10 people and then used his money to become head of the country. He's a corrupted monster
Layton, who's also head of the CGT : Listen pal right now the Minister of Justice is on trial we can't send another one there just yet. Best I can do is striking
Pavel is fistfighting a cop in the background
Luke : The vibes coming from these pigeons are rancid. We should go
#Layton isn't a gentleman because there aren't gentlemen left in France#And Flora isn't there because CPGE. Good luck girl you aren't getting out unharmed. You aren't getting out at all actually#Claire works at Polytechnique like Dimitri. Sorry my loves you're French you're all miserable#Luke is in apprentissage. No clue what he's learning tho#And Clive. You know what Clive does. Clive is#<- I found this in my drafts and I can't remember when I made it or where I was going with it. Fascinating#Anyway I guess I'm tagging characters ???#Hershel Layton#Luke Triton#Pavel pl#Clive dove#Professor layton and the unwound Future#Professor layton and the lost future#lost future spoilers#unwound future spoilers#Professeur layton et le destin perdu#Shitpost
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I just spent like 20 minutes thinking about soup
#i need to move out!!!!#i love my parents to be clear they're great#i just want to be in charge of my own meals again#it's not that they're bad at feeding me stuff i want to eat it's just we like different things#when it's just me i can make my soup however i want and no one's gonna say anything#Because It's My Soup#i can eat japanese chicken curry for a week straight! no one cares!#i just need to get better at eating vegetables#i want my own kitchen soooo baaad.....#my mom's sensitive to garlic. do you know how much recipes fuck if you add garlic? severely. and i can't if she's gonna eat it#i need my own kitchen so bad so so bad pleeaase#really hoping that i get my degree within like two months#and then i have to. urgh. find a job. but then i find a job and i go there#and i get Paid! money!#and once i have some money in the bank and a long term job i can try and get a flat#and once i have a flat i have my own kitchen i can order stuff online if i want and i can adopt a cat#i can have friends over i can decorate#and if i can swing it i'll be a civil servant#and if i'm lucky enough i can perhaps. give up the next 30 years of my life to a bank so i can own my own flat#god i hope. i fucking hope. i really really want to own#like not for landlord bullshit. just so i don't have to worry about where to go in a year two years five years#i want a civil servant job because that's for life and i would love to do the same thing forever#and i want to own a flat because i could make the space fit my needs and wants perfectly#and i wouldn't have to worry about where to live or old age or whatever#good luck to me finding a well situated 2 bedroom flat in one of the if not the worst city of france in terms of housing :)#but hey i've been lucky in life. maybe it'll keep going#i know what i want early! that's good#i shouldn't have a realisation that i want kids at 30yo or whatever. I Shall Not Become My Mom#ANYWAY i need my own kitchen!!!!!#wow i have a ramble tag now
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Organizing Hetalia Characters Into Arbitrary Categories: Emo Bands
My Chemical Romance: Australia, Austria, Belarus, Cyprus, England, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Turkey Fall Out Boy: America, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cameroon, China, Cuba, Czechia, Denmark, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Korea, New Zealand, Romano, Sealand, Sweden, Switzerland, Vietnam Panic! At The Disco: France, Italy, Malaysia, Philippines, Poland, Seborga, Slovakia, Spain, Thailand Paramore: Canada, Egypt, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Norway, Portugal, Seychelles, Taiwan, Ukraine, Wy Banished to Twenty One Pilots: Estonia, Prussia, Molossia
#molossia is why the TOP category exists#estonia and prussia just happen to fit#if i forgot someone just @ me in replies and i will Assign#good luck trying to figure out which era of MCR I mean#same goes for FOB#I'm only counting up until Death of a Bachelor for P!ATD#ngl half of the ones in Paramore are more Marina and the Diamonds Coded even though that's not emo#none of them are emo but you know what i mean#emo trinity with a guest appearance from paramore#hetalia#hetalia shitpost#hws america#hws england#hws france#hws china#hws russia#hws canada#hws italy#hws germany#hws japan#hws romano#hws north italy#hws south italy#hws spain#hws prussia#hws hungary#hws austria#hws portugal#hws liechtenstein#hws switzerland
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There is nothing better in life than hearing your favourite song playing through the grocery store speakers.
#the little corner store down my appartement played good luck babe by chappell roan#this has been the highlight of my day#and mind you i live in northern france#so chappell isn't even a big thing there
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Finished my Arsène Lupin collection. What a ride. I cackled several times. 10/10, I already want to reread it.
#absolutely iconic character#does a goofy little crime that pisses off every single detective in France#and sends herlock sholmes into a near-murderous rage#absolutely lost my mind at the boat scene.#lupin: *yapping continuously and pridefully refusing to move* sholmes: *sitting there deathly quiet and also pridefully refusing to move*#the boat: *currently sinking. water up to their knees*#storyrambles#it’s genuinely good crime fiction. it’s also so fucking funny.#lupin chatting to the guy he just knocked out as he unlocks his safe: ‘you know I have to admire the plot you came up with’#*sees the corpse of the man’s wife stashed in with the valuables and remembers the guy murdered her to get them*#lupin kicking his unconscious body: ‘you WRETCH I’ve lost all respect for you’#and then there’s ganimard who just straight up strangled lupin after he escaped prison and lupin was so offended gjsjjdfj#comes in from the skylight instead of coming in through the door to make his dramatic reveal have more impact#arsène lupin is a comedy#though I did enjoy lupin’s more serious moments too#he surprised me a little by just how sympathetic he often was towards people#especially people down on their luck or in awful situations#he usually helps out in that case… though he always gets something out of it too lol#arsène lupin
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🌺 🌿 💐
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