Story for fellow budget nerds in France: .“Our fate is firstly in the hands of the Socialists,” said an adviser to Bayrou. “If we cannot get them on board, then we’re dead for sure.”.

RT @AlainDomitille: France’s defence spending surge threatened by high national debt via ⁦@labboudles⁩.

“People who give in end up in the trash bin of history,” says France’s Jean-Luc Melenchon. Couldn’t come up with a better summary of our three hour lunch ! via @FT.

Want to know what France’s far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon is like over a long lunch? via @FT.

RT @ChassNews: Lunch with the FT: Far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon: ‘I am perfectly adapted to France’ via @FT.⁦@labboudles⁩ https://t.….

RT @neonubis: Le documentaire sur Bertrand Cantat est terrible. Dur à regarder. Impossible de rester calme devant la complaisance à son éga….

RT @bi_atch_: Twitter stp fais percer la boutique où je bosse, ça me brise le coeur ma patronne se donne à fond, le concept est archi migno….

RT @valentinapop: Why Europe can’t rely on French nuclear umbrella alone via ⁦@labboudles⁩ ⁦@hallbenjamin⁩ ⁦@JP_Rathbone⁩ .

Europe's biggest missile maker MBDA feels the Trump effect -- since January, it is getting more inquiries from EU militaries seeking non-US weapons via @ft.

RT @sylviapfeifer: Missile maker MBDA fields more calls from EU nations seeking non-US options via @labboudles and….

RT @ParisienneRg: Je suis passée ce dimanche rue Mouffetard pour voir l’avancée du nouveau pavage. C’est un massacre patrimonial. Les nouv….

RT @shashj: Our new leader. @TheEconomist has always been staunchly Transatlanticist. We don't say this lightly: "Europe must prepare to be….

RT @jdomerchet: La #France serait-elle capable d'offrir un parapluie #nucléaire à toute l'#Europe ? .Nombre de têtes nucléaires, capacités….

RT @ChristopherJM: Exclusive: President Zelensky just got off the phone with French President Macron and now is talking to NATO secretary g….

RT @danprimack: the heart of the matter:. TRUMP: It’s going to be very hard to do business like this, Volodymyr. ZELENSKYY: Ukraine is n….

RT @ChristopherJM: US-Ukraine minerals deal: the full text @FT . The terms of the bilateral agreement between Kyiv and Washington. https://….

RT @shashj: Someone asked for a poll, so here you go.

RT @MacronardsFM: Dans un pays normal l’entretien fleuve du President de la République @EmmanuelMacron au #FT devrait être commenté partout….

RT @sc_cath: Pour les propriétaires de Mistral AI, comment ça fonctionne? On leur demande de lâcher des dizaines de millions d’euros tous l….

RT @paulg: Apparently EU users don't get new AI versions till several months after US users, because AI companies have to get regulatory si….