Issues with signing in? Click here Need help signing in? View all events > Your email address is already registered with us. Click here to receive a verification link and login. Don't have an account? Click here to register Please check your spam or junk folder just in case A new gearbox is needed following discovery of a crack in the existing system, which led to a tightening of routine inspection between flights. If the European Aviation Safety Agency delivers a certification of the propeller gearbox in "early September," Airbus Defence & Space can fit the equipment to the engines and allow hundreds more flying hours between inspections, the chief of the Direction Générale de l'Armement procurement office said on Tuesday at the Eurosatory trade show, which closed June 17. Industrial work on a new gearbox is being backed by Avio's US parent company, General Electric.  "They are serious people," Collet-Billon said. Fitting the new gearbox is "indispensable" and would allow the plane to fly hundreds of flight hours between checks. After the crack was discovered, the present gearbox is inspected after every 20 flight hours and an initial 200 hours. The plan is for an "intermediate solution" to be certified in September, to be followed by a new gearbox as a long-term response, a DGA spokesman said. The DGA took delivery June 8 of its ninth A400M, fitted with a self-protection kit and other "tactical capabilities," the procurement office said in a statement. Having defensive countermeasures is a key requirement for French pilots flying the A400M in the skies over sub-Saharan Africa in the Barkhane mission. Other features on the newest French A400M include the capability for parachute drops, use of short runways, refueling fighter and transport aircraft, and being refueled, the DGA said June 15. France expects to receive this year two more new A400Ms in the tactical standard, with a retrofit of three units already in service. The Air Force has long requested the "tactical" version to extend the mission beyond a simple cargo plane. An in-flight refueling of helicopters is among the requirements, but that capability will take more time to deliver, along with the parachute drop from both sides of the fuselage. Eight nation clients – Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey and Malaysia – are waiting for a new delivery schedule for the A400M. The timetable will set out the revised plan for production and upgrades for the turboprop plane. Facebook pageTwitter feedRSS feedDefense News © 2025  This story was originally published on April 28 It has been updated to correct a sales figure in the penultimate paragraph.PARIS — Airbus faces a potentially heavy financial hit due to problems on the engine gearbox of the A400M military transport plane the European aircraft company said in a an April 28 ​statement Thursday.\"On the military side we are now facing a serious challenge for production and customer deliveries of the A400M due to new unexpected issues on the engine propeller gearbox,\" Tom Enders said in the statement with first-quarter financial results.\"It’s very frustrating but we’ll have to work through this with our engine partners,\" he said.Airbus warned there could be a \"significant\" cost in repairing the gearbox This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Arriving at the Racing Mutest Académie at the age of 15 from FCO Saint-Jean de la Ruelle Tidiane Diallo signed his first professional contract three years later The native of Orléans is now signed withRacing until 2027 he was called up for the first team for the first time recenlty capable of playing on the left lane and centrally has a total of 17 caps with the various French youth teams he was a finalist in the last U-17 World Cup He was included by Patrick Vieira in the first team squad on May 19 in the team’s last Ligue 1 Uber Eats match of the season Conditions Générales d’Utilisation – Crédits Ⓒ Racing Club de Strasbourg Alsace – 2025 – Fait avec 💙 par C’est qui Maurice ? EnglishEnglishعربيLink copiedby Dalia GhanemPublished on December 18, 2017blog DiwanDiwan a blog from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East Program and the Malcolm H draws on Carnegie scholars to provide insight into and analysis of the region On December 6, French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Algeria for a “work and friendship visit,” as the Elysée Palace described it went on a walkabout in the heart of Algiers met with President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia and had a working dinner with the president of the Council of the Nation Franco-Algerian relations can be enhanced by forging new economic ties and boosting investment in renewable energies Algeria is also a place with attractive labor costs for investors with approximately 500 French companies installed in the country Additional partnership agreements were signed on December 7, after Macron’s return from Algeria, during a meeting in Paris of the Algerian-French Intergovernmental Committee. Among these was an agreement to produce cable cars in Algeria by the French Pomagalski company a cooperation agreement between the Algerian National Institute of Intellectual Property and the French Standardization Association and a third agreement creating a digital hub in the health sector between the Universities of Tlemcen and Rennes It is also Algiers that assisted France during Operation Serval to fight armed militants and expel them from northern Mali It did so by opening its airspace to French military aircraft and providing them with fuel free of charge France needs Algerian assistance in the fight against violent extremism Algeria is the only actor with real military capacities and experience in the region to help in those regards Economic and security cooperation between Algeria and France is crucial an official apology for the period of French colonization and for the abuses against Algerians must be issued that memory is more likely to remain a significant obstacle to future relations between the two countries Recent history illustrates why Lebanese officials are so wary of the United States The Zainabiyyat battalion has been able to access traditionally inaccessible spaces in Yemen Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces are adopting a new strategy for survival The potential for rising tension in the Yemeni governorate worries those on both sides its borders Mohanad Hage Ali talks about the Captagon trade’s impact on state institutions Why Ivan Ilyin is not Putin’s Ideological Guru Since Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000 and began reasserting Russia’s influence on the international scene Western pundits have tried to discern the Russian president’s “brain” or “guru” convinced that they would be able to identify some shadowy Svengali-like character who would inspire him this quest is a lost cause: Putin has had several “gray cardinals”—Vladislav Surkov being probably the most famous—who have helped over the years to shape Russia’s master narrative and the president’s personal image but there is no single ideological source to be found the Russian presidential administration cultivates a plural doctrinal market with a flock of advisors offering several mixed ideological products for public consumption Ilyin’s new acquired status is now widely accepted and propagated by Western experts without any discussion about the legitimacy of this claim I argue here that not only Ilyin is not Putin’s “guru,” but that Ilyin’s ideological legacy in contemporary Russia is more complex than that of “fascism” Ilyin has not become Putin’s official ideological reference or “Putin’s philosopher” Putin has quoted Ilyin on only five occasions (in 2005 2013 and 2014); three of these were addresses to the federal assemblies and two to military audiences This number of quotes is far fewer than those from many other thinkers among the regime’s pantheon Putin has referred many times to historians such as Nikolai Karamzin (1766–1826) symbols of classical Russian historiography or political figures such as Petr Stolypin (1862–1911) the embodiment of Russia’s modernization path at the beginning of the 20th century Even the impressive “Russia–my history” historical park funded by the Moscow Patriarchate and the Moscow city government which features more than 300 quotations on Russia on the walls far fewer than many classic Russian historians and philosophers Dmitri Badovsky’s ISEPI (Institute for Social-Economic and Political Research: Institut sotsial’no-ekonomicheskikh i politicheskikh issledovanii) the main think-tank engaged in elaborating a conservative ideology for the Kremlin organized seminars dedicated to Nikolia Berdiaev And then Russian senior officials were instructed by Surkov to read some classic authors but also Berdiaev and the Silver Age philosopher Vladimir Soloviev none of the five quotations by Putin—or the two Ilyin passages cited by Vladislav Surkov in 2006 to promote his own notion of “sovereign democracy”—is from Ilyin’s most tendentiously pro-fascist texts Ilyin was a rabid anti-Semite and anti-Bolshevik who indeed was attracted to fascism which he saw as spiritually close to the White émigré ideology to spiritual renewal and the revival/rebirth of their country He fled Nazi Germany but remained devoted to the “lighter” fascism embodied by Francisco Franco in Spain and António de Oliveira Salazar in Portugal and his vision of Russia’s “essence” and ideal political regime was in fact among the most classic and uninventive one: as many other Russian political thinkers There is nothing particularly fascist here just the most conventional vision of Russia Ilyin’s quotations by Putin—as well as by Surkov or the one by Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov—are from the most stereotyped ones, celebrating the Russian state as the embodiment of law, the soldier as personifying the nation, Russia’s eternal statehood, and in 2014, Putin quoting “That who loves Russia should wish to him freedom.” All these quotations mirror the most conventional framing about Russia and the role of the state; none of them is related to the most controversial statements that Ilyin made on Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy When Ilyin is brought to the Kremlin’s pantheon Western proponents of Ilyin’s “guru” status point out that Putin consecrated his grave in 2009 (see below) and that the 150-minute documentary film aired to celebrate Putin’s fifteen years in power in 2015 devoted several minutes specifically to Ilyin a closer look evidences not Putin’s identification with Ilyin Putin is an arbitrator among different stakeholders as well as between different ideological factions as the personification of the Russian state One of these ideological factions—one among several—pushes for rehabilitating Ilyin and making him a martyr of the White emigration on equal status with White General Anton Denikin (1872–1947) This faction comprises the Moscow Patriarchate and some of its most political personalities Orthodox businessmen such as Vladimir Yakunin and Konstantin Malofeev and a group of pro-monarchy intellectuals such as Nikita Mikhalkov  The Church was the driving force behind the repatriation of Ilyin’s remains and his reburial at the Donskoy Monastery in 2005 at the same time as Denikin’s and his spouse’s Rehabilitating Ilyin is part of this faction’s broader agenda of reintegrating the White émigré past into the national master narrative This policy coincides with the Church’s strategy of advancing conservative alongside nostalgia for the Romanov Empire But these groups are celebrating the cultural continuity with the Tsarist past reintegrating White supporters into the national pantheon implies rehabilitating émigrés who collaborated with fascist regimes against the Soviet Union—but that dilemma is not exclusive to Russia All Eastern European countries face the same difficulties in reintegrating collaborationist movements into their national past Ilyin earned a posthumous place in the national pantheon because this faction regards him as the personification of White ideology—and Denikin of the White movement per se explanations of the Russian state’s functioning and ideological construction Associate Director and research professor at the Institute for European Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University It is getting more and more difficult for independent analysis to survive in today’s conditions We at Riddle remain committed to keeping all our texts freely available So paywall subscriptions are not an option Nor do we take money that may compromise the independence of our editorial policy So we feel forced to ask our readers for help Your support will enable us to keep on doing what we believe in Vladislav Inozemtsev on how the Russian Presidential Administration is trying to formulate a «new ideology» for Russia Andrey Pertsev on the new rules the Kremlin has prepared for parties in Russia Andrey Pertsev on Kiriyenko’s modernist project for the governance of society We are conducting some all important maintenance work.. 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Group sales in 2013 rose by 5.0 percent to 59.3 billion euros driven by the high level of deliveries of commercial airliners and by delivery of the first versions of the A400M military transport plane The group said it expected to raise sales and profitability by the end of next year a vital contributor to the French trade balance Last month Airbus announced that it took a record 1,503 net orders in 2013 But it trailed behind Boeing in terms of finished airliners delivered Airbus said it raised its operating margin from 5.2 percent of sales in 2012 to 6.0 percent said it expected a reasonable margin next year including costs for the new long-haul A350 aircraft it was aiming for a margin of 10.0 percent in 2015 The net profit for 2013 was achieved despite a charge of 434 million euros for unexpected costs for the first examples of the A350 which is due to enter service at the end of this year Airbus also took a provision of 292 million euros for the costs of restructuring the Defence and Space division which comprises the former Astrium space activities the Cassidian defence arm and the Airbus Military branch Airbus Group changed its names from EADS to reflect the dominant role played by the Airbus airliner brand The board recommended raising the dividend payout by 25.0 percent to 0.75 euros per share The figures gave a lift to Airbus shares which were showing a gain of 1.43 percent to 53.87 euros in morning trading The overall French market was down 0.28 percent The other divisions also turned in good performances Orders taken by the Defence and Space activities rose by 28.0 percent and sales by 7.0 percent to 14.4 billion euros Operating profit before non-recurrent items rose by 31.0 percent to 942 million euros Airbus Helicopters was set back by a temporary suspension of use of the EC225 helicopter Investcorp to buy a majority stake in a German provider of supply chain and logistics consultancy services International sports and leisure specialist Decathlon’s fundamental goal is to “make sports accessible to all” It defines its purpose to “move people through the wonders of sport” If you already have a Retail Navigator (formerly Retail Week Prospect) subscription, please sign in now A subscription to Retail Navigator and Retail Week gives you all the retail intelligence you need Retail Navigator is a live actionable intelligence tool that: Discover Retail Navigator Find out more Site powered by Webvision Cloud the attacking midfielder was a rising star in the French Euro 96 squad whose name was spoken in the same breath as Zinedine Zidane. One missed penalty later and his life in football took a very different turn France and the Czech Republic had gone the distance After 120 draining and ultimately goalless minutes their Euro 96 semi-final – played at Old Trafford mere hours before England faced Germany at Wembley – was set for the inevitable conclusion: a penalty shootout Les Bleus had defeated the Dutch 5-4 on penalties in the previous round at Anfield when each of their five kickers made no mistake The tie was won when Bernard Lama saved from Clarence Seedorf and once again every one of their five men scored Bixente Lizarazu and Vincent Guerin all found the net although his effort was weakly hit and almost saved the ball squeezing under Czech keeper Petr Kouba Karel Poborsky and Karel Rada – all five converted after 10 kicks and with the shootout score tied at 5-5 Pedros had a role in one of the most memorable goals in French football history scored by Loko in August 1994 against Paris Saint-Germain Up next for France was 24-year-old midfielder Reynald Pedros then worked his way through their academy to make it to the first team under the fabled Coco Suaudeau who instigated ‘jeu a la nantaise’ – a fluid style of one-touch attacking football that would culminate in Nantes winning Ligue 1 in 1995 was part of the ‘trio magique’ that would routinely destroy defences Pedros played for France Under-21s and then the seniors; in fact he was on the pitch for France’s lowest moment the World Cup qualifier against Bulgaria in 1993 in which they conceded a late goal that prevented them from going to the United States 5ft 8in Pedros was meant to be covering the post at the corner from which Emil Kostadinov scored Bulgaria’s opener Pedros was seen as part of French football’s exciting future With a World Cup on home soil just two years away there was an enormous buzz about a group of players that included Zidane I decided to aim to the goalkeeper’s left as I had done on the few previous occasions I was asked to take a penalty Yet the fierce competition for places at the tournament meant Pedros wasn’t quite top of les Bleus’ pecking order He played half an hour as a substitute against Bulgaria in the group stage and 40 minutes of the quarter-final against the Netherlands Pedros had put himself forward as the sixth kicker against the Dutch and did the same having come on after an hour against the Czechs – even though one of his team-mates wasn’t so sure about the idea “I was surprised to see Reynald go to take a penalty,” said Guerin “I thought a more experienced player would be taking that kick you can’t say that to a player – he’s the one who has made the decision to go.” Although he didn’t regularly take penalties for Nantes he was a technical player and practised them in training thinking: ‘There’s no need to rush’ – there was no anxiety at that moment at all,” Pedros tells FFT over coffee on a sunny Parisian afternoon 20 years later as I had done on the few previous occasions I was asked to take a penalty.” and – incredibly – mark the beginning of the end of Reynald Pedros’ career then lifted his shirt over his head so he wouldn’t see his team-mates’ reactions so aiming to the goalkeeper’s left means kicking to his natural side – something most players who aren’t regular penalty takers tend to do He’s right: after a slight stutter in his run-up “There just wasn’t enough power,” the 44-year-old admits Pedros looked lost after the kick was saved the Czechs hadn’t missed any of the 19 penalties they’d taken in major tournament shootouts up until that point and smashed his kick straight down the middle “When that went in,” Pedros remembers I don’t remember any bad words from my team-mates took him aside in the dressing room to cheer him up “There are worse things than this that happen in life,” he said and blamed himself for putting the relative novice in that position Pedros thought about the French penalty just before his; the one taken by Blanc It was in almost exactly the same spot as his “Five centimetres the other way,” he says “That’s where fortune comes in.” but Pedros’ wife didn't want to go to Catalonia Pedros may not have had Zidane's status in France at the time He'd reached the Champions League semi-finals He'd played almost an hour for his country in the European Championship semi-final his career went in the totally opposite direction After he’d stepped down following France’s World Cup heroics at home in 1998 working out the best combinations and personalities for what would prove to be France’s first World Cup triumph Pedros had other things on his mind – mainly his future He'd decided to leave Nantes that summer and wanted to find his next club before Euro 96 began. Monaco had been first to make him an offer But then president Jean-Louis Campora told the French press of the interest and said: “I don’t know if it’s a good idea – I don’t know if he’s the right fit.” Pedros phoned the coach and said he didn’t want to make the move Tigana told him to ignore the president’s comments – “That’s just the way he is,” he said – but Pedros didn’t feel wanted Barcelona were the next club to come in for the midfielder “I said no to Barcelona for family reasons,” he says “I tried to convince her but she would not change her mind Marseille were back in Ligue 1 after their relegation caused by the Bernard Tapie bribery scandal two years previously Sports director Marcel Dib and coach Gerard Gili both wanted him “We are going to build a big team to get back into Europe,” Gili told him he says: “I think it would have been better if I'd broken my leg.” but hoped that things would improve at Marseille and that he could force his way back in Pedros was on holiday after the European Championship when he got a call from Gili saying he needed to come back and join the squad early but was immediately surprised at the lax training sessions While at Nantes he'd had personalised training regimes to get the best out of him “I barely worked: no pain; no real effort.” Pedros played against Mexico in Paris and was whistled every time he touched the ball Either he couldn’t hear it or he blocked it out because he has no recollection of it happening When one of the backroom staff said to him after the game: “That reaction to you – it’s just not normal” Pedros had to ask what he was talking about “I couldn’t believe it was all about the penalty,” he laments “As far as everyone else was concerned Pedros’ last appearance for France came against Denmark in November 1996 He brought his Marseille form to les Bleus but ended up closer to the relegation zone The big names the club had promised would join Pedros never materialised The supporters made their displeasure quite clear and the pressures off the pitch affected performances on it And so began an itinerant career packed with choices that never quite worked out The player who had Barcelona knocking at his door in the spring of 1996 ended up playing for eight different clubs in four different countries over the next eight seasons Pedros moved to Parma in Italy (by this stage he had split up from his wife so was free to move abroad) He had to get used to tougher training sessions: from a friendly one-hour workout with Marseille to an intense two hours at Parma He liked the atmosphere there and the squad was strong He became good friends with Lilian Thuram and Daniel Bravo who is now his punditry colleague on French TV station Canal+ Thuram gave Pedros some advice that he struggled to get his head around “When you are in the box in a good position you just have to shoot,” the defender told him “Your team-mates will never pass to you even if you’re in a better position “Unbearable” is the word he uses to describe that attitude “To think only of myself on the pitch would be to deny my true self,” he says Pedros’ body wasn’t used to the change Parma finished the 1996/97 Serie A season in second place and Pedros returned for the final three matches of the campaign – just in time to be one of the 40 players summoned for France coach Aime Jacquet’s end-of-season get-together Jacquet announced that his World Cup selection would be based on players who were playing regularly for their clubs Pedros wondered what that meant: “If I’ve played one game out of three, is that enough? Does it need to be every game?” At the beginning of the next season, he spoke to the Parma coach Carlo Ancelotti about his situation. The Italian said he couldn’t promise a game every week, but would find a loan deal to a club that would play him: Napoli “It’s just what you need,” said Ancelotti “and they have a fierce crowd who will love you.” The Napoli coach didn’t want Pedros; nor did the sporting director “It was a catastrophe,” the Frenchman sighs I didn’t play a single game.” The Partenopei changed coach twice Part of the problem for Pedros was that his education at Nantes was so unique that wherever he went after was going to be a step down Only after that agreement did he speak to Jacquet about the move. The France manager said he would allow Pedros to have some medical tests with the national team doctors Pedros knew then it would be hard to force his way back into contention but was never called back into the France squad “I made all that effort for nothing in the end,” he recalls now Part of the problem for Pedros was that his education at Nantes was so unique that wherever he went after working with Coco Suaudeau was going to be a step down: “When I was at Nantes I didn’t realise how different things would be away from there.” Nantes taught him to be altruistic; to prioritise the collective above the individual The standard was much higher with the France team but nowhere else was he able to recreate that collective team ethic “I think Nantes gave me a bad education by teaching me those qualities – but it’s still the football that I love I thought it would also be like that everywhere else I didn’t understand that it could be so different at other clubs.” You have to stop believing that everything is rosy just because you play football for a living Pedros played for clubs lower down the French ladder – Montpellier he saw out his playing days at Maccabi Ahi Nazareth in Israel and Al-Khor Sports Club in Qatar called Le Complex Canari (Nantes’ nickname is the Canaries) “I know where I failed and where I succeeded but my book is an attack against the system of football,” he said in an interview “You have to stop believing that everything is rosy just because you play football for a living Behind every failure there’s an explanation – and it’s not always a sporting one.” He mentions his regrets: turning down Barcelona before the European Championship in England He could surely sympathise with Didier Six who's claimed that his penalty miss in the 1982 World Cup semi-final loss to West Germany was one of the reasons why he was never entrusted with a managerial role in France Pedros took amateur coaching jobs when his playing career finished at Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle and Saint-Pryve Saint-Hilaire and often spoke of his wish to return to Nantes in a coaching capacity opprobrium over that fateful penalty came briefly from the fans but he rarely felt it from within the game It cannot be compared to the fate of David Ginola who was singled out for blame after that World Cup qualifying home defeat by Bulgaria in 1993 who was playing in that match against the Czech Republic was talking about his France memories on a Canal+ documentary called Les Yeux dans les Bleus Desailly warned about the dangers of taking big penalties: “Just look at Pedros – he missed a penalty and we never saw him again.” “I don’t like to waste time on things that are not worth it,” is Pedros’ response “I’m proud that I took the penalty you know your family and friends will be more upset than you Now I am a pundit on Canal+ and when I see someone miss a penalty The guy who craps himself when he’s asked to take a penalty – he shouldn’t be saying anything at all The Euro 96 penalty miss may have started a dramatic career slide for Pedros a few injuries and a unique and unrepeatable football education all contributed to the change in direction – though his remains a football career to be proud of it does remind us that for every young superstar that comes along if a certain goalkeeper happened to dive the other way “what’s important is the human side – the emotions and your feelings That’s more important than whether the ball goes in or not.” This feature originally appeared in the July 2016 issue of FourFourTwo. Subscribe New features every day on FourFourTwo.com Greg LeaSocial Links NavigationGreg Lea is a freelance football journalist who's filled in wherever FourFourTwo needs him since 2014 He became a Crystal Palace fan after watching a 1-0 loss to Port Vale in 1998 and once got on the scoresheet in a primary school game against Wilfried Zaha's Whitehorse Manor (an own goal in an 8-0 defeat).