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President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker met with First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon in Brussels on Wednesday, as the European Council emergency meeting on the 'Brexit' issue takes place in the Belgian capital. Relations between Scotland and the EU, the 'Brexit' result, as well as the possibility of a second referendum on Scotland’s independence from the UK were expected to top the agenda of the meeting.
Bernard Cazeneuve, French Interior Minister, said on Wednesday in Paris that a British exit from the European Union will not affect the situation with refugees, stranded in Calais, who are trying to reach the UK.
In a show of support for a principal threatened with a knife by a student on Friday, the French Minister of National Education, Nicole Belloubet met with staff at the secondary school, before participating in a round table on school security at Chenove town hall, near Dijon, in eastern France. IMAGES
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin awarded medals to the nine police officers who responded to subdue a radicalised young man who had just killed a high school teacher on 13 October 2023, in Arras, northern France. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and his new Education Minister, Amelie Oudea-Castera, visit a secondary school in Andresy, Yvelines, near Paris, as part of the 'knowledge shock', a wide-ranging package of reforms aimed at raising students' academic standards. (COMPLETES VIDI34ER4ZY_EN) IMAGES
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said he is committed to see "everything we started" while he was Education Minister be carried out by his successor newly appointed Education Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera. "I will always be by your side" added Attal at handover ceremony. SOUNDBITE