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The National Rally and figures close to Nigel Farage are seeking to toughen migration policy via symbolic bilateral agreements, amid increased political pressure on European governments over irregular immigration.
Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally, signed a memorandum of understanding with Nigel Farage on Friday providing for the refoulement by the United Kingdom of migrant boats to the French coast. This agreement, described as symbolic, caused a unanimous outcry in the French political class, from the extreme left to the extreme right.
“The Falkland Islands are Argentine by history and by law”: Javier Milei toughens his tone on the historic claim of Buenos Aires
In a televised address, the Argentine president announced a bill to “toughen sanctions and penalties against companies linked to unauthorized operations” around the South Atlantic archipelago.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
The French government will officially condemn this memorandum of understanding as an uncommitted partisan initiative
Very likely · Within days
The United Kingdom will not take concrete action on this protocol signed by a French opposition party and a British non-governmental political actor
Likely · Within weeks

As the 2027 presidential election approaches, candidates from the different parties are debating the legal retirement age: on the left and in the National Rally, the return to 60 or 62 years is favored, while on the right and in the center, the extension of working hours is mentioned without specifying a new starting age, despite its unpopularity, due to the financial risks of the system, with a deficit projected at 6.8 billion euros in 2030 according to the COR.
Matignon took legal action after the leak to the press of working documents evoking a possible imposition of employee savings to finance the 2027 Social Security budget, estimating that these disclosures could constitute a breach of trust or a violation of professional secrecy, while the government minimizes the declarations of Minister Roland Lescure and instead favors the release of existing savings.

Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally, signed a symbolic memorandum of understanding with Nigel Farage providing for the refoulement by the United Kingdom of migrant boats to the French coast, causing an outcry throughout the French political class. Meanwhile, Foreign Legion soldier José Olger Melo Charry escaped from his FARC dissident captors in Colombia and reached a police station on his own.
Libby Klinner, widow of Commander Alex Klinner killed in March during a support operation against Iran in Iraq, deplores the Pentagon's refusal to pay her certain military benefits on the grounds that Congress has not officially qualified the conflict in Iran as a war. Despite an apology from the administration and promises of full pension payments, JD Vance and Donald Trump downplayed the scale of the fighting, calling it 'trifle'.

An explosive drone discovered near Ukrainian planes at Leipzig airport has led Germany to name Moscow as a sponsor. Two suspects linked to Russia have been identified, including a Belarusian who entered the Schengen area on an Italian tourist visa, reigniting the European debate on the restriction of visas for Russian nationals, in particular veterans, while intelligence services report an increasing use of local non-Russian executioners for sabotage operations.

The president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, signed a symbolic memorandum of understanding with Nigel Farage on Friday providing for the refoulement by the United Kingdom of migrant boats to the French coast. This agreement was unanimously denounced by the French political class, from the extreme left to the extreme right.