
Leila Abboud
@labboudles
I write about France for the Financial Times. Ex-Bloomberg, Reuters, WSJ
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10-02-2011 22:22:46
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Exclusive: President Zelensky just got off the phone with French President Macron and now is talking to NATO secretary general Rutte, person close to the Ukrainian leader tells me Financial Times. Follow our live blog for more: on.ft.com/3D1wHtD


Our new leader. The Economist has always been staunchly Transatlanticist. We don't say this lightly: "Europe must prepare to be abandoned or extorted. Not to prepare for that could leave Europe vulnerable to Russia and to an increasingly hostile America" economist.com/leaders/2025/0…


Missile maker MBDA fields more calls from EU nations seeking non-US options ft.com/content/da28b5… via Leila Abboud and me


Why Europe can’t rely on French nuclear umbrella alone via Leila Abboud Ben Hall John Paul Rathbone on.ft.com/4bCmTmA

Le documentaire sur Bertrand Cantat est terrible. Dur à regarder. Impossible de rester calme devant la complaisance à son égard, notamment celle de PascalNegre dont l’absence totale de morale est écoeurante. La honte. Ignoble.

Lunch with the FT: Far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon: ‘I am perfectly adapted to France’ via Financial Times Leila Abboud on.ft.com/3YtIYOZ

Want to know what France’s far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon is like over a long lunch? via Financial Times on.ft.com/3GyRndG

“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 Financial Times on.ft.com/44hs8qc

France’s defence spending surge threatened by high national debt via Leila Abboud on.ft.com/3FFvysY


.Leila Abboud on the Tour's ascent of the butte Montmartre and the scourge of overtourism



Barnier 2.0? Bayrou to hold confidence vote next month over attempt to get budget deficit under control ft.com/content/89ad29… via Leila Abboud

🇫🇷🗳️Sur franceinfo, j'ai évoqué le fait que l'instabilité gouvernementale actuelle masque le fait que la stabilité qui a prévalu jusqu'à 2022 s'appuyait sur une fiction crée par le mode de scrutin majoritaire : les gouvernements étaient issus d'électorats *très* minoritaires.