Thierry Henry reacts to historic Arsenal Premier League title win with Instagram message to new generation
The Arsenal legend was part of the last team to win the Premier League title Source link
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Cannes Kingpin Thierry Frémaux Is Ready to Make Nice With Netflix—Almost
Thierry Frémaux, the general delegate of the Festival de Cannes—that’s how you say “festival director” in French—began working with Cannes in 2001, and has been one of the most influential figures in international cinema for the past 25 years. Under his direction, the festival has launched the careers of filmmakers such as Justine Triet, Yorgos Lanthimos, Joachim Trier, Xavier Dolan, Ruben Östlund, and Andrea Arnold, to name a few. This year’s lineup includes several returning auteurs, including films from Pedro Almodóvar, Asghar Farhadi, and Ryusuke Hamaguchi. But larger studio films are notably absent from this year’s lineup. There’s no Mission Impossible, and no films from Focus Features, a festival staple. Even A24 is sitting out this year’s festival. Regardless, Frémaux is excited for audiences to experience this year’s international lineup—and is ready for any and all critical reception to the films. Just two weeks before the 79th Cannes Film Festival, Frémaux sat down with Vanity Fair to discuss this year’s fête. He was opinionated, as usual, and for good reason. He remains a highly influential …
Macron asks Trump to lift sanctions on former EU tech chief Thierry Breton – POLITICO
French President Emmanuel Macron has asked U.S. President Donald Trump to lift sanctions imposed last year on a raft of prominent Europeans including former EU tech chief Thierry Breton, arguing the measures were “unjustly imposed.” “I would like to personally draw your attention to the sanctions imposed by the United States against several European citizens, including two Frenchmen, Nicolas Guillou, judge at the International Criminal Court, and Thierry Breton, former European Commissioner,” Macron wrote to his U.S. counterpart in a letter sent last week, according to a report on Sunday by La Tribune. “I ask you to reconsider these decisions of your administration and to lift the sanctions unjustly imposed on Nicolas Guillou and Thierry Breton,” he added. Source link
Former EU commissioner Thierry Breton sees himself as a savior for Europe
Letter from Brussels Thierry Breton believes in his destiny and is making sure anyone in doubt knows it. His public statements make clear that the former European commissioner for the internal market (2019-2024) sees himself playing a leading role, in France or in Europe, and in the near future. More precisely, in 2027, when French voters will elect a new president. In Brussels, he hopes things will shift at the top of European institutions. “I have experience turning around impossible situations. That has been my life,” Breton declared on France Inter on January 25. This time, he argued, it was the European Union and, with it, France that needed saving. Between the expansionist aims of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, the commercial offensive of Xi Jinping’s China and the ideological war waged by Donald Trump’s United States against European integration, “the danger is existential,” he repeated to Le Monde. With “[his] team,” about which he refused to provide further details, he is working on a “providential project,” as he put it, to free Europe from its 10 …
EU Parliament backs Thierry Breton in free speech spat with Washington – POLITICO
Calling the sanctions “an unacceptable personalisation of EU policy, a dangerous precedent for the independence of the European Institutions and an attack on the EU’s regulatory sovereignty,” the parliament’s top officials added: “The European Parliament and all other EU institutions should jointly ensure that similar attacks against current or former members of the EU institutions are met with a systematic and coordinated response.” The right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists group, the political home of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and the far-right Europe of Sovereign Nations group did not support the statement. Breton and four other European nationals were targeted by the U.S. sanctions in late December. The penalties were the first Washington has levied at an EU policymaker and marked a new low in transatlantic relations. The statement added that the “Parliament welcomes the Commission’s decision to grant legal and financial assistance” to Breton. Breton welcomed the statement of support. “When bullied, the EU must stand firm — on principles & on action,” he wrote on social media. “I welcome the European Parliament’s rejection …