All coverage of France, ranked by recency.
Out of 395 MPs elected to Parliament following the September 23 election, women remain in the minority – just 107 seats. Yet, the appointment of Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri by the king brings hope.
The demonstrations erupted in Paris-region schools last week and have snowballed, with police making hundreds of arrests in clashes with the young protesters.
Paris is hoping to rein in the country’s deficit and avoid another no-confidence vote.
On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected a proposal from Washington, backed by Kyiv, for Russia and Ukraine to mutually halt long-range strikes.
The 37-year-old woman was killed by an immigration official during a federal crackdown in Minneapolis in January.
More than 625 people, mostly students, have been arrested over two days of violent protests near schools and universities across France over what students say are staffing shortages, dilapidated buildings, overcrowded classes, government budget cuts and long schedules. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu convened a crisis meeting Thursday, canceling ministers’ trips to focus on the protests, which...
New highs in oil prices have weighed heavily on European households' budgets and companies' profit margins, pushing governments to increase aid mechanisms.
Green party head Marine Tondelier and Communist leader Fabien Roussel have failed to win unanimous support for their independent candidacies, as their party members across France search for the best way to oppose the far right.
Sébastien Lecornu's office said he asked ministers to cancel any planned official trips in the coming days so authorities and police can focus on the demonstrations.
PARIS — The French government on Thursday proposed a 2027 budget with €43 billion in savings that seem designed to appease Marine Le Pen’s far-right party, the National Rally, and reassure markets frightened over France’s increasingly dire fiscal outlook. “In 2027, we will return to the path of consolidation,” Economy and Finance Minister Roland Lescure told reporters Thursday as he presented t...
'We have agreed on the format, timeline and steps needed to ensure full coverage,' said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. A joint statement made no mention of Ukraine being offered any additional funding.
The French conservatives' candidate for president explains his vision for Europe, including his plan to roll back the primacy of EU law. He insists the plan differs from Marine Le Pen's.
PARIS — French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu called an emergency meeting on Thursday to address the fast-growing number of student protests across the country. The movement, which was born of anger over conditions in secondary schools, began in recent days with teenagers blocking entrances to educational institutions in underprivileged suburbs of Paris. The Union Syndicale Lycéenne , the stu...
PARIS — France will increase its defense budget next year despite increasingly strained public finances, according to a document obtained by POLITICO. The French government will present later on Thursday a 2027 budget that earmarks €63.4 billion for military expenditures, compared with €57 billion this year. About 12% will be dedicated to nuclear deterrence and 43% to the purchase and maintenan...
France’s public debt hits records as economy takes center stage in French election AP News
International meetings attended by President Xi Jinping may appear to yield few concrete results, but Beijing is seeking broad, noncommittal support from as many countries as possible to cement its central role on the world stage.
In Paris for the Argentina Week forum, Milei hopes to attract new foreign investment to stave off recession in his country, with just over a year to go before the next presidential election.
The US Federal Reserve's Office of the Inspector General found no 'reasonable grounds' to justify criminal charges against the institution's former chair, according to a report published on Wednesday. The US president demands that Powell should be 'forced to resign' or 'sued, at the highest level.'
French security forces detained over 600 people while dozens of police and gendarmes were wounded as protests that have seen blockades of high schools and violent clashes escalated, the interior minister said.
Investments are part of a July 2025 trade deal with Trump over tariffs on South Korean imports to the United States.
After a seven-year investigation prompted by victims’ campaigning, France’s National anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office has formally classified the joint Nazi and Vichy operation that affected 20,000 Marseille residents in January 1943.
French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed the idea after British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the UK could consider rejoining the EU.
Although Emmanuel Macron had pledged to reduce methane emissions from the fossil fuel sector, he ultimately called for the implementation of European legislation on the issue to be postponed, citing the energy crisis.
En Roumanie, le deuxième échec du vote de confiance devant le Parlement agite le spectre d’élections anticipées Le Monde.fr
'The Macron Years' (1/3). After ten years in power, Macron's movement, which emerged as an attractive mirage amid the barren political landscape of 2017, has turned into a fiasco. Those close to the president, who experienced their movement's self-dissolution firsthand, bitterly examine their track record, something Macron refuses to discuss.
The French president was addressing allegations that the far-right leader made antisemitic remarks in 2013. Jordan Bardella hit back, stating that he had marched at a rally against antisemitism in Paris following the October 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel, unlike Macron.
A pilot programme between the UK and France that aimed to curb the number of migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats has been scrapped, Britain’s government said on Wednesday. In a statement, the Home Office said the so-called “one in, one out” deal is “no longer processing new cases”. Under the plan, people who arrived in the UK after making the dangerous crossing across the Chann...
One month before the midterm elections, US President Donald Trump gathered leading AI executives at the White House to reset his administration's messaging on the contentious issue.
Accused of writing antisemitic messages when he was a young activist, an allegation he denies, the president of the Rassemblement National came of age politically in a milieu strongly influenced by Alain Soral. An antisemitic polemicist who briefly belonged to the party, Soral remained a popular figure on the French far right throughout the 2010s and, for some, an ideological compass.
Deficits, spreads against Germany and the risk of President Le Pen are all rising
The European Union would embrace the UK if it ever decided to rejoin the bloc, the leaders of Spain and France said shortly after new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham floated the possibility. “Welcome back,” French President Emmanuel Macron quipped in English, speaking Wednesday in Madrid alongside Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who is hosting the leader on a two-day visit. “This prime minister is...
LONDON — French President Emmanuel Macron and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez have welcomed Andy Burnham’s plan to unpick Brexit. Speaking at a joint press conference on Wednesday, Macron said Britain returning to the EU would be “excellent news” while Sanchez said the U.K. would be welcomed “with open arms.” “This is very good news, both for his country and for Europeans,” Macron told r...
Argentine President Javier Milei is set to lead Argentina Week in Paris from Wednesday to Friday, with a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday as the biggest item on the agenda. Argentina Week is a series of events aimed at bringing together Argentine national and provincial officials, as well as business leaders, with executives from European companies to showcase trade and...
Deputy Minister Steenhuisen Calls for Deeper France-South Africa Economic Partnerships zawya.com
French minister says UAE alliance can be model for tackling organised crime thenationalnews.com
PARIS, Sept 30 - Dozens of people have been injured so far in a wave of student demonstrations, France's Education Minister Edouard Geffray said on Wednesday, as students continued to protest against dilapidated schools, insufficient resources and stressful exams.
Street turnout exceeded that of the previous major public sector demonstration, in December 2024, though strike rates were lower, leaving unions weighing their next move ahead of Friday's meeting with the government.
A measure of French bond risk reached another milestone as investors position for political upheaval next year and the potential for a populist government to loosen the purse strings.
On Tuesday, Edouard Philippe proposed gradually raising the age and career length requirements for pensions. Though he is the leading candidate from the right and center, he knows that is not necessarily a winning position.
Rodolphe Saadé, head of the shipping giant, is aiming to put pressure on the French government, which may decide, as part of the national budget, to further tax the group whose profits in 2026 are expected to exceed €2.1 billion earned in 2025.
Baghdad and Washington agreed in 2024 to wind down the coalition's mission, and its troops withdrew gradually from bases across the country. Their final withdrawal is scheduled for Wednesday, September 30. Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi declared October 1 to be celebrated as Sovereignty Day.
Thomas lives under Russian bombardment in Kyiv, where he represents French companies in the defense and security sectors. In Moscow, Xavier relays Vladimir Putin's propaganda. Despite being under EU sanctions, he ran in the French Sénat elections last weekend, but failed to win a seat.
Refusant de brider l’IA, Donald Trump met en scène l’autorégulation de ses acteurs Le Monde.fr
At a May 2026 hearing, the chief of naval operations told a Senate panel that the next-generation system needed to 'extend the reach, survivability and lethality,' expected to work with unmanned systems. Boeing was competing for the contract with Northrop Grumman.
Nearly a week after her party, the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), won the parliamentary elections, the mayor of Marrakech was named Morocco's prime minister on September 29.
The Trump administration has defended third-country deportations as necessary since the home nations of some of those who are targeted for removal sometimes refuse to accept them.
The White House gathering included Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Sundar Pichai of Google and Jensen Huang of Nvidia. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI President Greg Brockman also attended.
At a summit of EU countries, Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen proposed that greenhouse gas monitoring rules be pushed back one year, adding that the EU predicted the upcoming winter would be 'challenging,' with 'very high prices.'
Depuis le 14 septembre, l’Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament adresse des courriers à 1,6 million de femmes utilisant cette contraception pour les avertir d’un risque de méningiome. Les cabinets médicaux et des services de gynécologie, déjà témoins de la désaffection pour la pilule, font face à un « pic d’appels ».
