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On July 18th and 19th, the President of the UAE, His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, made an official visit to France and met with French President Emmanuel Macron and a number of senior French officials. The goal of the visit was to discuss bilateral strategic relationships that serve their mutual interests, especially in key areas such as trade, investment, energy, technology, renewable energy, food security, and climate change. The visit reaffirmed the important economic relationship between the two nations via the signing of several economic and development agreements and memoranda of understanding. In the main, these agreements represent a response to current global crises, most notably energy security supplies, climate change, and food security, along with the strengthening of the economic partnership between the UAE and France in particular, and the UAE and the EU in general.

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The first round of the French legislative elections was held on June 12th to compete for the 577 seats in the French National Assembly, according to a single-vote system, under which a candidate is considered the winner of the district seat if he or she obtains more than 50% of the vote in the first or second round. This first round produced disturbing results for the French president, opening the way for a system of "cohabitation" for the fourth time in the history of the Fifth Republic, in which the prime minister is from a political bloc or party opposing the president. This will ultimately be decided in the second round of voting, which is to be held on June 19. 

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A System of "Cohabitation":

Dr. Youssef Dawood‏‏

More than 500 French diplomats and six professional unions declared a strike on 2 June 2022 to protest their deteriorating working conditions after reforms to the French diplomatic corps were issued by decree in April. A closer look at the French corps suggests that there were various motives behind these protests, rather than a single driver. The protests have diverse implications for France and reflect the scope of the challenges that the ministry of foreign affairs currently faces. The recent escalation of French diplomatic protests and the strike reflect diplomats’ concerns that these reforms could affect their status and privileges and reduce French influence abroad. There is no doubt that the escalation of these protests is exerting pressure on the new French government and could also impact the upcoming parliamentary elections.

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