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Algeria has helped Europe diversify its energy supplies by pumping more gas to Italy, French President Emmanuel Macron says during a visit to Africa's top gas exporter. Dismissing suggestions that Italy and France were "in competition" for Algerian gas, Macron welcoms a deal Algeria signed last month to pump more gas to Italy. The deal is "good for Italy, it's good for Europe and it improves the diversification of Europe," he tells reporters. SOUNDBITE TO COMPLETE VIDI32H44WP_EN & VIDI32H46TY_EN
During his visit to Prague, French President Macron pays his respects to the victims of a December 2023 shooting in the Czech capital, in which a student killed 14 people and then himself at Charles University. Macron lays a wreath in front of the university's Faculty of Arts, alongside his Czech counterpart Petr Pavel. IMAGES
"You will be brothers in arms, fighting from the first to the last second": Emmanuel Macron meets the players of the French national rugby team, Les Bleus, at their base camp in Reuil-Malmaison, a few days before the Rugby World Cup kicks off in France. "You're going to win and you're going to do what it takes. We've been close a few times, but this time we all want it," the French president told them. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron attends the prize-giving ceremony for stage 6 of the Tour de France, won by Tadej Pogacar ahead of yellow jersey Jonas Vingegaard, at the summit of Cauterets-Cambasque, in southwestern France. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron watches the final minutes of stage 6 of the Tour de France in Cauterets-Cambasque, southwestern France, alongside François Bayrou and Michel-Edouard Leclerc. IMAGES
EU commission chief Ursula von der Leyen says that Europe could survive Russia's squeeze on gas supplies to the EU thanks to an unprecedented diversification of sources in recent weeks. "Our models show, with all the measures we have taken, that we are now on the safe side for this winter," Von der Leyen told a session of European Parliament in the eastern French city of Strasbourg. SOUNDBITE