{"id":2317,"date":"2025-12-18T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/fabricated-controversy-accuses-macron-of-giving-up-overseas-territories\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:28:00","slug":"fabricated-controversy-accuses-macron-of-giving-up-overseas-territories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/fabricated-controversy-accuses-macron-of-giving-up-overseas-territories\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabricated controversy accuses Macron of giving up overseas territories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\">  <\/picture> <noscript>  <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">French President Emmanuel Macron in Marseille, France, December 16, 2025.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">MIGUEL MEDINA VIA REUTERS<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">France is selling off its empire: that, in essence, is the message being spread by some on the French right and far right in recent days. The cause: renewed diplomatic talks with the South Pacific island state of Vanuatu regarding two uninhabited islets off the coast of New Caledonia, which the two countries have been disputing for decades. Neighboring rocks Matthew and Hunter, also known as Umaenupne and Leka, cover less than 1 square kilometer&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/politics\/article\/2025\/12\/18\/fabricated-controversy-accuses-macron-of-giving-up-overseas-territories_6748633_5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron in Marseille, France, December 16, 2025. MIGUEL MEDINA VIA REUTERS France is selling off its empire: that, in essence, is the message being spread by some on the French right and far right in recent days. The cause: renewed diplomatic talks with the South Pacific island state of Vanuatu regarding two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}