François Chardon

We have first raised a dust, and then complain we cannot see (Berkeley).

[Sophie Pedder @PedderSophie]

New poll. In every one of four possible runoff scenarios, Marine Le Pen wins the 🇫🇷 2027 presidential election

Le Pen 69.5% v Mélenchon
Le Pen 57% v Glucksmann
Le Pen 57% v Attal
Le Pen 52.5% v Philippe

The centre has its work cut out

Source: @elabe_fr

[François Chardon @donchar]

Glucksmann "forms a power couple with Léa Salamé, one of France’s best-known broadcast journalists... Paris Match splashed photos of the pair in Corsica on the cover in August just beneath images of Macron on a jet ski." @AdrienneKlasa @SarahWhites https://t.co/6kvEbjsWgz

[Angelina Rascouët @arascouet]

Hermes boss Axel Dumas could join X to share his pearls of wisdom. In the meantime, we have it covered for you:

Hermes chief watches pork prices in China to assess elusive luxury demand recovery there.

https://t.co/gogcLHx5R8

[Zoe Schneeweiss @ZSchneeweiss]

Le Pen is free to run in French presidential race after appeal https://t.co/9hDzaogXiQ

[Sarah White @SarahWhites]

‘You’re dead’ — Europe’s SpaceX fights back against Musk prophecy via @FT
https://t.co/HQml83AXmA

[François Chardon @donchar]

.@arthurmensch: “As long as we have adversaries that are threatening, we do need to have our own capabilities. Europe in particular needs to have strategic autonomy when it comes to defense systems.” - report by @samschech https://t.co/kQn6DEA92C

[Victor Mallet @VJMallet]

Big business always wants to be on the right side of a political trend, even if it involves screeching U-turns in their attitudes to the politicians they once shunned.

[François Chardon @donchar]

.@ICCT_TheHague's Julian Lanchès: “Concerns regarding Tehran’s potential involvement in this wave of attacks are not unfounded... The attacks appear to rely on locally recruited individuals.” https://t.co/VR7VzTtERD @SarahWhites @labboudles & Ortenca Aliaj

[François Chardon @donchar]

Paris' debt rose by almost 40 per cent since 2020 to reach €10.7bn in 2024... The population has contracted by about 8% to reach just over 2mn since 2012 when Hidalgo took over, @labboudles @SarahWhites note https://t.co/HHDIJ4y2Xu

[François Chardon @donchar]

The checkered reputation of Macron's “Nouvelle Renaissance” plan for @MuseeLouvre is reflecting the President's waning popularity, @MarkLandler points out https://t.co/oeSgo58zoc

[Angelina Rascouët @arascouet]

Interesting to see Helene Mercier Arnault take the spotlight on French radio and TF1. She talks about succession, the rumors around tensions among the siblings, her ties with rapper Gim’s and Bernard Armault. It’s part of a media campaign ahead of the launch of an album.

[François Chardon @donchar]

.@ian_c_johnston: In Dec., Bardella met UK hedge funds & asset managers in Paris, incl. T Rowe Price, Rokos Capital, Man Group and M&G Investments. Investors discussed the RN’s economic programme. https://t.co/hb1OduD5UV

[François Chardon @donchar]

"Occasionally, the account is almost tongue-in-cheek, describing the meals “without wanting to insult those that had prepared it” as “not very appetising”." @SarahWhites @AlainDomitille note as they review Le journal d'un prisonnier ⁩https://t.co/CV91sSoEio

[François Chardon @donchar]

Alexandre Stott, an economist with @GoldmanSachs, said that spreads had tightened in recent weeks, showing investors were “relatively confident” that a compromise would be reached by the end of the year, @ian_c_johnston concludes in his latest report https://t.co/Eh8UNVWKZZ

[Anne-Sylvaine Chassany @ChassNews]

Scoop: Berlin and Paris discuss scrapping planned joint fighter and focusing on air ‘combat cloud’ via @FT
https://t.co/aRELOgelnr

[François Chardon @donchar]

"It remains the Islamic State’s deadliest and most elaborate plot in Europe, and the 10-month trial, when 20 men were convicted in 2022, received intense news coverage," the reporters add.

[François Chardon @donchar]

Memories of Nov. 13 have persisted far more than those of other terrorist assaults in France, like the January 2015 attacks in Paris and the 2016 Bastille Day massacre in Nice, @DenisPeschanski tells @aurelienbrd @LizAldermanNYT https://t.co/zadcUvmEoD

[François Chardon @donchar]

“If you push to become a super-trendy brand, you grow faster but go out of fashion quicker as well. You’re better off being a fashionable brand for less fashionable people -there are a lot more of them,” @Luxurynsight's Jonathan Siboni tells @AdrienneKlasa https://t.co/NMbkl7VoVT

[François Chardon @donchar]

.@VincentMartigny: Mr. Macron is “more than ever completely in denial of the political situation… So we have an absolute blockage.” @NYTimesCohen
https://t.co/X5xm1dha2H

[François Chardon @donchar]

.@ChathamHouse’s G. Roos: “I don’t see any significant international investor choosing France at the moment given the absolute lack of political clarity and also fiscal clarity.” @TimRoss_1 @gioleali
https://t.co/12mEuVWK0H