COLUMN. The Socialists have the fate of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu in their hands. But they are torn between the will ...

Macron’s ascent to the top job in 2017 “broke the classic political alternation between the right and left in France”, said a ...

Susan Price spoke to John Mullen, a revolutionary socialist activist in the Paris region, about the deep political crisis in ...

The late minister Robert Badinter was “criticised, attacked, mocked, vilified, insulted, abused, even hated” for his life’s ...

In a social media post, Lecornu announced that he had accepted the responsibility 'out of duty' and promised to 'put an end ...

"Chez Francoise" is a discreetly located venue near the French parliament whose visitors' book boasts signatures from former leaders including Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande. Options include a ...

A suspected Islamist gunman who opened fire aboard a high-speed train travelling through northern Europe but was overpowered by three U.S. citizens before he killed anyone goes on trial on Monday in ...

With its fifth prime minister quitting in just two years, France is approaching a reckoning. Many now assume the far right ...

Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in 1981, was inducted into the Pantheon in Paris on ...

From the left, first row, outgoing culture minister Rachida Dati, former prime minister Elisabeth Borne, Senate house speaker ...

NEWS ANALYSIS. A towering figure of the French left and a symbol of bygone intellectual authority, Robert Badinter is being ...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s office said he will choose a new prime minister by Friday evening. That lucky individual ...