France divided over ‘Yadan Law’ anti-Semitism bill
A new bill to fight anti-Semitism in France is causing heated debate and a wave of public protest.
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A new bill to fight anti-Semitism in France is causing heated debate and a wave of public protest.
The violent death of Quentin Deranque at the hands of far-left militants has brought into sharp focus the links between the antifa organisation La Jeune Garde (Young…
French former senator Joël Guerriau has been convicted of drugging a female MP with ecstasy, intending to sexually assault or rape her.
France's National Assembly has unanimously voted to reject the long-stalled European Union-Mercosur free-trade agreement
Controversy erupted in France after girls and women were spotted yesterday wearing hijabs on the balcony of the French parliament.
Déja-vu? France’s freshly reappointed Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, has unveiled his new government as opposition leaders began plotting its downfall.
One of France’s royal pretenders, Louis de Bourbon, Duke of Anjou, has criticised the country’s deepening "political and institutional crisis" and urged the…
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has resigned less than 24 hours after unveiling his new government.
France's former prime minister, François Bayrou, freshly ejected from parliament, insists he will keep “no advantages” relating to his lost position.
The European Central Bank (ECB) might have to intervene in France following the fall of prime minister François Bayrou because political instability is worsening…
French Prime Minister François Bayrou said the destiny of France was at stake in a forthcoming confidence vote, which he called to resolve a budget standoff but…
France's hard-right and hard-left parties on Thursday rejected a compromise with Prime Minister Francois Bayrou over his government's cost-cutting budget, saying…
French President Emmanuel Macron has given his "full support" to his embattled Prime Minister, who has called a confidence vote that could see his government collapse…
French Republican MP, Olivier Marleix, has been found dead at his home.
Co-President of the French National Digital Council, Gilles Babinet, has warned that social media "in their current forms are not compatible with democracy".
There are few photographs of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus where those French heroes do not brandish a cigarette.
French justice minister Gérald Darmanin said several French prisons had been hit in a wave of reportedly co-ordinated attacks.
French President Emmanuel Macron’s top adviser, Alexis Kohler, was facing legal action after repeatedly refusing to testify before a French parliamentary committee…
French Minister Delegate François-Noël Buffet says he does not rule out removing French nationality from MEP Rima Hassan of La France Insoumise (LFI) if she were…
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,…
The French Senate has voted to end lifetime benefits previously granted to former presidents and prime ministers.
Manon Aubry, hard-left MEP for La France Insoumise (LFI), has taken aim at the nativity scene under Christmas trees in Brussels in her Christmas message to her supporters.
In one of his Letters from Paris published many years ago in the New Yorker, Adam Gopnik observed that the French suffer from what he called a “White Helicopter”…
France's former interior minister Gérald Darmanin has called upon current PM, Michel Barnier, to find common ground with the National Rally (RN) party "and its…
The Corsican language can not be used in the Corsican parliament, the administrative court of appeal of Marseille has confirmed in a judicial decision.
Jordan Bardella, president of the French hard-right party National Rally (RN) has stated that any RN candidate for the next national election must have a clean criminal…
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…
It is impossible to achieve anything in the French parliament without the support of Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN), party leader Jordan Bardella has said.
Three months after their defeat in the parliamentary elections, France's hard-right National Rally party officially kicked off a new political campaign on October…
The vote, originally scheduled to follow the general policy speech on October 1, is a customary practice whereby prime ministers seek parliamentary approval.