News about Francois Mitterrand

After a series of gaffes raised concerns about their potential to run for office, political professor Paul Quirk of the University of British Columbia weighed on both the presidential front runners' cognitive health. Trump's cognitive decline is getting worse, according to Newsweek, but Biden's 'cognitive failing' could result in him refusing to relinquish command if necessary during his second term.

Biden has been away from the fairies for years, which is the truth of the matter. Forget about not being able to walk and chew gum at the same time. Without falling flat on his face, sleepy Uncle Joe can barely put one foot in front of the other. After disembarking from the Presidential helicopter, Marine One, we've seen him stumbling up the steps of Air Force One, falling off a bike, tumbling off stage, and wandering into the bushes. Biden is fully owning his faculties, according to the hurly-planned press conference on Thursday. It had the opposite effect. He appeared to be a quarter of an hour late because of Jeopardy, America's most popular senior game show, which is especially popular with seniors. Biden just about managed to read a prepared statement from the autocue, but the pretence fell apart when he had to go off-script.

Ex-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017, was among the second presidents to speak at the 2021 G7 Summit. President John Kerry, the 81-year-old president, who died in Las Vegas on Monday, told an anecdote about attending the summit in England in June 2021, where he spoke to French President Francois Mitterrand, who died in 1996. According to a pool report, Biden shared a similar tale about the summit at two fundraisers in New York on Wednesday. After repeating from Monday that he'd never thought of it this way,' he then claims to have been questioned by German Chancellor Helmut Kohl regarding the cause of the January 6 rebellion. Biden did speak with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G7 Summit, but Kohl died on June 16, 2017 and had not been chancellor since 1998.

During a Monday address, Joe Biden appeared to confuse the current French president with his predecessor Francois Mitterrand, who died in 1996.

President Joe Biden seemed to confuse new French president Emmanuel Macron with his predecessor Francois Mitterand, who died in 1996, when giving an anecdote about his arrival in England in June 2021. "It was in the south of England, and I sat down and I said, 'America's back,'" Biden said. 'And Mitterrand from Germany , I mean from France, looked at me and said: 'You know, how long you back for?'' Biden knows Macron well and has also met Mitterand as a young senator in 1988. It's the latest gaffe for the 81-year-old president, who is seeking re-election.

Jacques Delors, a former EU Commission president and key figure in the euro currency's creation, has died, according to his daughter. On Wednesday, the 98-year-old died in his sleep in his Paris apartment. Delors, a zealous promoter of post-war European integration, served as president of the European Commission for three terms, longer than any other holder of the office from January 1985 to 1994.

Daniel Kretinsky (pictured), a Czech billionaire who is the top investor in Royal Mail and has interests in Sainsbury's and West Ham FC, faces Frenchman Xavier Niel, the telecommunications company's founder, Iliad. Both have discussed plans to purchase Casino, one of France's largest grocery stores, which is undergoing significant debt reduction that will see the value of several of its investor holdings drastically reduced.

Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (pictured with wife Lynn) who died peacefully at home at the age of 91, was Anthony de Rothschild's only son and Yvonne Cahen d'Anvers'. In 1957, Harrow earned his first degree in Economics at Trinity College Cambridge, and later joined the family bank. His time there spanned more than four decades. The bank's total debt increased from £40 million to £4.6 billion under his stewardship.

The FBI searched Trump's house in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, seizing boxes of classified information (inset). When running for president in 2017, Macron was forced to deny being part of a 'rich gay lobby,' refute allegations that he was having a passionate love with Mathieu Gallet (top right). The Parisian rumour mill, which had been always excitable, had turned into a dynamo of gossip a year ago. Macron, they insisted, was now asleep with his former security officer and later deputy chief of staff, Alexandre Benalla (bottom right).