France moves to extend detention of dangerous irregular immigrants
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France to release prisoners to combat prison overpopulation
The French Government is preparing measures for automatic or facilitated early releases of certain prisoners as a way to ease chronic and record-level overcrowding…
National Rally’s benefits fraud amendment passes amid low turnout
A proposal significantly toughening penalties for welfare fraud, put forward by the National Rally, has passed France’s National Assembly after a narrow 27–24…
French Government historically unpopular, political mistrust unprecedentedly high
French people are increasingly turning their back on French politicians, having a very negative view on both politics and the government.
French Socialists want to force ‘rich’ to lend interest-free to the State
Three French Socialist senators have tabled an amendment to the 2026 Finance Bill that would compel high-income households to provide interest-free loans to the…
French PM survives confidence vote, but ‘the great absentees are the French people’
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu today survived two separate no-confidence votes in the French National Assembly.
French parliamentarians have nibbled away like termites at the stability formed by de Gaulle
The collapse of the Lecornu government in the French National Assembly, the fourth government to fail in the last year, raises disturbing resonances of the parliamentary…
France’s hard left leader call for mass protest to ‘oust government’
France's hard-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon calls for mass protests to topple Prime Minister François Bayrou’s government.
France approves assisted dying bill that seeks to avoid ‘suicide tourism’
France's National Assembly has taken a big step toward legalising assisted dying, passing a bill on its first reading that would allow patients to seek medical help…
Le Pen sentence would mean ‘political death,’ says MEP Garraud
Jean-Paul Garraud, MEP for the French National Rally (RN) party and delegation leader in the Patriots for Europe Group in the European Parliament, has lambasted…
France votes to restrict birthright citizenship in Mayotte to control immigration
The French National Assembly has voted to tighten birthright citizenship laws in Mayotte, aiming to curb illegal immigration in the overseas territory.
‘Test French politicians for drugs,’ says Green party Mayor amid rising drug use in the country
The French left-wing Green Party mayor of Grenoble, Éric Piolle, has been pushing for anonymous drug tests targeting France’s political elite, including ministers,…
Last-gasp push to secure French budget
A panel of French lawmakers have been meeting to thrash out the final text of a much delayed 2025 budget bill that is key to restoring investor confidence over the…
France in turmoil as President Macron faces uphill battle to save leadership
The collapse of the French Government following a no-confidence vote backed by the hard-left and hard-right has plunged France deeper into political chaos.
Macron hunts for new PM as government resignation looms
French President Emmanuel Macron met with allies and senior politicians on December 5 as he sought to swiftly appoint a new prime minister, a day after hard-right…
Work one day for free, French asked in latest budget plan
France's national budget is so strained that lawmakers are pushing a proposal to make the French work an extra seven hours each year without pay - the equivalent…
French economy ‘at the edge of the precipice’
There is more than the usual curiosity that accompanies news of budgetary disappointment in an important country in the case of the shambles of public accounts now…
France’s National Rally ‘willing to give PM Barnier a chance,’ MEP says
Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN) is willing to give France's new Prime Minister Michel Barnier a chance, an MEP for the party has said.
Macron to decide on French PM after party leaders’ meeting
French President Emmanuel Macron has said he will decide who will become France's next prime minister after meeting party leaders and the heads of the country's…
Macron ally reclaims assembly presidency amidst voting controversy
Yaël Braun-Pivet, from President Emmanuel Macron's centrist Renaissance party, was controversially reelected as president of the French National Assembly after…
Macron’s father: ‘Decision to dissolve parliament made months ago’
The decision to dissolve the French National Assembly for snap elections was not due to a poor showing by President Emmanual Macron in the European Parliament elections…
National Rally seen winning 37 per cent of popular vote in first round of French snap election
An opinion poll published in newspaper Les Echos on June 28 said French hard-right party National Rally (NR) further rose in its forecast and may reach as much…
Macron increasingly isolated following election gamble
French President Emmanuel Macron is looking increasingly isolated following his June 9 decision to dissolve the French National Assembly after a crushing defeat…
Will courts postpone France’s general election?
The French Constitutional Council has been asked to rule on the constitutional legality of France's general election.
Two killed in New Caledonia rioting after right to vote is broadened
At least two people have been killed in rioting on the French Pacific Island of New Caledonia.
Leaked secret poll gives Le Pen majority in French parliament
According to a leaked secret poll commissioned by Les Républicains, Marine Le Pen's National Rally party could obtain a possible majority in the French Parliament.
Macron has managed to spin the Immigration Bill in his own favour: The master tactician has made himself sound tough but reasonable
You have to hand it to Emmanuel Macron.
French National Assembly approves ‘strict’ migration law, cheering the Right
The majority in the French Parliament voted in favour of a tougher migration law in what is being seen as a political win for the Right.
French parliamentarian opens up on ‘use of drugs and alcohol in politics’
Caroline Janvier, a member of French President Emmanuel Macrons' Renaissance party, says drugs and alcohol use are often rampant at parties attended by Government…
Something to hide? Macron allies prevent publication of damning Africa ‘failure’ report
French President Emmanuel Macron's party is preventing a scathing parliamentary report into France's North Africa policy from being published