Geopolitics Daily | July 8, 2024 🌍

Geopolitics Daily | July 8, 2024 🌍

In France Jean-Luc Mélenchon's left-wing alliance emerged victorious in French elections yesterday, with President Macron's centrists making a surprising comeback and pushing Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally into third place, leading to a hung parliament and political instability.

Meanwhile, Chinese soldiers have arrived in Belarus for joint anti-extremism exercises, aiming to strengthen military cooperation.

In Brussels Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán's right-wing alliance Patriots for Europe has gained official EU Parliament group status after Belgium’s Vlaams Belang joined, with support from Dutch and Spanish right-wing parties, now representing seven countries.