Former French president François Hollande is confident his Socialist party colleagues would compromise on a crucial demand ...

An Ipsos poll released earlier this month put Macron’s approval rating at 19 percent — above that firm’s lowest-ever figure ...

Most of the world now knows François Hollande as the man who won France’s May 6 presidential election, and in so doing made incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy the nation’s first single-term head of state in 31 ...

PARIS – Francois Hollande has always been an unlikely French president, a guy proud to call himself "normal" and who ended up in the Elysee Palace almost by default. Perhaps the most presidential ...

He was among France’s most unpopular presidents when he left office. So low were his approval ratings at the end of his mandate in 2017 – just 3 per cent wanted him to run for re-election – that ...

Emmanuel Macron’s popularity has dropped to the lowest level of any French president in the Fifth Republic, according to a ...

PARIS --French President Francois Hollande announced Thursday that he would not seek a second term in next year’s presidential election, saying he hoped to give his Socialist party a chance to win ...

UNITED NATIONS—World leaders gathered for the annual United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, focusing on the war in Syria as an international disgrace, while calling terrorism and the flow of ...

PARIS --French President Francois Hollande doesn't look like a man who spends 10,000 euros ($11,000) a month on his hair. Yet the deeply unpopular Socialist leader, who was elected on a populist ...

SINCE France’s fifth republic began in 1958, no president in good health has ever failed to stand for re-election. Yet last night that is what François Hollande decided to do. “I have served the ...

French President Francois Hollande called for the creation of “an Islam of France” and the removal of foreign-trained extremist imams in a key speech Thursday on the challenges radical Islam poses to ...