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Wednesday 14 June 2017
Lady Brexit meets Monsieur Europe: May, Macron hold talks

condemnation of terror- gotiations to “start as soon
ism and our commitment as possible,” but also add-
to stamp out this evil,” May ed that the door remains
said. open for the U.K. to remain
May arrived in Paris with in the European Union.
her leadership hobbled by From a European point of
a catastrophic election last view, he said, as long as
week just as Britain heads the negotiations are not
into tough talks on leaving over, there is still a possibil-
the EU. ity to change the course of
While May struggles to hold events.
onto power, Macron is on Still, he acknowledged,
the ascendancy, with his “the decision
year-old party set to win (to exit the EU) has been
a huge majority in parlia- taken by the sovereign
mentary elections Sunday. British people. I do respect
That should fortify Macron’s that.”
standing in Europe as he The talks Tuesday also fo-
tries to push the remaining cused heavily on deepen-
EU nations to stand tough ing counterterrorism co-
in Brexit negotiations, and operation, especially
French President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May arrive for a joint to unite even more closely reducing extremist propa-
press conference after a meeting, at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Tuesday, June 13, 2017. After their as Britain departs. ganda circulated online.
talks, the two leaders will watch a France-England football match at the Stade de France that will Seeking to allay European Britain and France face
honor victims of extremist attacks in both countries. concerns after her election similar challenges in fight-
(AP Photo/Thibault Camus) setback, May reaffirmed ing home-grown Islamic
By SYLVIE CORBET day from opposite sides the garden of the Elysee Tuesday that “the timeta- extremism and share similar
GREGORY KATZ of the Brexit front line and Palace after a working din- ble for Brexit negotiations scars from deadly attacks
Associated Press agreed that negotiations ner, the two leaders an- remains on course and will that rocked London, Man-
PARIS (AP) — for Britain’s divorce from nounced plans to pursue begin next week.” chester, Paris and Nice.
She wants to escape the the European bloc will start an initiative to require tech British officials had pre- May said major internet
European Union, he wants next week as planned. companies to better police viously suggested they companies have failed
to embolden it. British Prime They also reached com- online extremism and hold wouldn’t be able to for- to live up to prior commit-
Minister Theresa May and mon ground on fighting a them legally liable if they mally start Brexit negotia- ments to do more to pre-
French President Emmanu- shared enemy: terrorism. fail to do so. tions as scheduled. vent extremists from finding
el Macron held talks Tues- Standing side by side in “We are united in our total Macron called for the ne- a “safe space” online. q
Prospects for Russia’s nascent protests unclear after rally

Tens of thousands of peo- expanding his reach to a
ple took to the streets Mon- younger crowd by posting
day in more than 100 cities his videos to YouTube.
and towns across Russia to He was detained by police
express their frustration with outside his Moscow home
President Vladimir Putin before he could even
and governing elites who head to the protest. That
are largely perceived as left no one to lead the rally
corrupt and self-serving. in the capital. Like the oth-
The Moscow rally broke er demonstrations across
with the tradition of an or- the country, it was chaotic
derly opposition gathering and lacking in any clear
where middle-aged pro- political demands.
testers chanted anti-Putin Those figures usually de-
slogans on a square in Mos- scribed as opposition lead-
cow’s periphery. ers ignored the protests,
Instead, the crowd of most- with the exception of some
ly teenagers and those younger politicians like Ilya
in their 20s thronged to a Yashin, who does not have
main thoroughfare in the much of a following.
heart of the capital, chant- Current Russian opposition
ing “Down with the czar!” groups and their leaders
and climbing scaffolds and don’t seem to hold much
In this Monday, June 12, 2017 photo, young protestors, one of them holding a poster that reads lamp posts. attraction for the protest-
‘Dimon (Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev) Resign!’ are blocked by riot police during a At least 1,750 people were ers, said Masha Lipman,
demonstration in downtown Moscow, Russia. After calling for two Kremlin-rattling protests, Alexei detained at the protests an independent Moscow-
Navalny has shown that he can attract massive anti-government crowds but it is yet unclear if this across Russia, with baton- based political analyst.
can grow into a genuine political movement.
(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) wielding police in riot gear Navalny may have galva-
seizing nearly 900 in Mos- nized the protest, but the
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA that have rattled the Krem- What’s less certain, how- cow alone.Navalny, who slogans mostly targeted
Associated Press lin, it’s clear that opposition ever, is whether the dem- called for the demonstra- Putin and government cor-
MOSCOW (AP) — After call- leader Alexei Navalny has onstrations can grow into tions, rose to prominence ruption, with only a frac-
ing two nationwide dem- the ability to bring people a genuine political move- with his investigations of tion expressing support for
onstrations in three months into the streets. ment. official corruption and is Navalny.q