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Will brutal wildfires force French leaders to take climate crisis seriously?
Campaigners worry politicians will have moved on by time of elections in which Marine Le Pen is expected to challenge As dozens of forest wildfires burned across France this week amid the summer’s fourth brutal heatwave and increasing air pollution, some wondered whether voters’ first-hand experience of the climate emergency would change the political debate ahead of next year’s presidential election. The Green leader, Marine Tondelier , who cut short a tour of France on medical advice that at seven months pregnant she should avoid breathing smoke-filled air in the south-west near a huge wildfire in Gironde, said...
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- 31 Jul 2026, 06:00 CEST
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Campaigners worry politicians will have moved on by time of elections in which Marine Le Pen is expected to challenge As dozens of forest wildfires burned across France this week amid the summer’s fourth brutal heatwave and increasing air pollution, some wondered whether voters’ first-hand experience of the climate emergency would change the political debate ahead of next year’s presidential election. The Green leader, Marine Tondelier , who cut short a tour of France on medical advice that at seven months pregnant she should avoid breathing smoke-filled air in the south-west near a huge wildfire in Gironde, said...
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Campaigners worry politicians will have moved on by time of elections in which Marine Le Pen is expected to challenge As dozens of forest wildfires burned across France this week amid the summer’s fourth brutal heatwave and increasing air pollution, some wondered whether voters’ first-hand experience of the climate emergency would change the political debate ahead of next year’s presidential election. The Green leader, Marine Tondelier , who cut short a tour of France on medical advice that at seven months pregnant...