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The French National Assembly widely rejected the first motion of no confidence tabled against new Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. The motion received 124 votes out of the 289 required. IMAGES
Farmers listen live to French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal giving his general policy statement at the National Assembly, from a motorway blockade near Villabe in Paris outskirts. (COMPLETE VIDI34H939T_EN, VIDI34H93A6_EN, VIDI34H82TM_EN) IMAGES
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal condemned the "crocodile tears" of government opposition MPs, to farmers, who are stepping up their actions in France and elsewhere in Europe, protesting in particular against financial burdens and environmental standards deemed too onerous. SOUNDBITE
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne arrives at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, where she is welcomed by President Roberta Metsola for the inauguration of a new building named Simone Veil, in honour of the former French President of the EU Parliament and the first woman to hold that office. IMAGES
Fires in Greece this summer will burn an area of at least 150,000 hectares (370,600), the Greek prime minister says including a large fire in the north which has been burning for nearly two weeks. The area ravaged by fires "will exceed 1,500,000,000 square metres (150,000 hectares)... the most serious one was the one at Dadia forest", says Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, referring to the forest fire that the EU has branded the largest ever recorded in the bloc. SOUNDBITE
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne arrives at the site of a fire which claimed nine lives at a holiday home for people with mild mental disabilities. Two people are still missing near Colmar, in eastern France, in the deadliest fire in France for seven years. IMAGES
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