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

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

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

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

Sébastien Lecornu was the fourth prime minister to go since the summer of 2024. His departure adds yet more pressure on ...

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

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

On Sunday, the Élysée finally announced the composition of the new government. It was to prove the shortest in French history ...

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

Former justice minister Robert Badinter will be inducted into the Panthéon mausoleum in Paris – alongside the likes of ...