Emmanuel Macron

Macron seems to think his new choice of prime minister is the answer to France’s problems. He might be the only one who does

President Macron said Notre Dame would be rebuilt within five years and would be even more beautiful. And so it came to pass

Ridiculous borrowing, impossible promises and an unwillingness to face reality have led to budget deadlock and talk of a Greek-style financial crisis

He was the future once, but now French voters are heading for the extremes

The French president’s new choice of PM shows that his political project has ended in failure

The current chaos serves as a reminder that, on some fundamental levels, the constitutional settlement of the French fifth republic doesn’t really work

Three weeks in, Starmer has brought Britain closer to the EU, and outraged Brexiteers. What’s not to like?

Days after those election gains, squabbling over PM candidates makes it look as dysfunctional as ever

There is an undeniable note of envy that cuts through the French coverage of the UK election

Most of France celebrated the defeat of Marine Le Pen last Sunday. But the price of victory will be chaos

Politics doesn’t always go your way, so it’s important to drink it in when it does

Both leaders thought politics would be easier than finance. They were wrong

Marine Le Pen’s clear win underscores her party’s achievement of making a duplicitous surface-level transformation to voters

In Nice, a stronghold of the French hard right, the racial and political tensions simmer

As Marine Le Pen’s extreme right party creeps ever further ahead of its rivals, a new democratic collective has emerged

Macron’s snap election call has triggered turmoil across the country as parties rush to form alliances in time for June 30

The hard right has boomed under Macron – that will be his epitaph

Macron is playing a dangerous game by calling an election – and if Le Pen wins, we all lose

For years, the French hard right has cast a perpetual shadow over the country’s politics

Emmanuel Macron is on a mission to restore ‘Republican order’ in New Caledonia

A call for peace remains an integral part of France's annual workers' march

With China's economy in trouble, Xi has taken to wooing Europe

Macron’s supposed ‘gaffe’ over European troops in Ukraine has invigorated the allies and again raised the question of an EU army

The guardians of the French countryside are posing a headache for the very new, very young PM

Reading is not the preferred choice of recreation for France’s youth

Has Macron just chosen his successor?

The rising tensions were far from an ideal atmosphere for an international sporting competition

We are actually fond of the British royal family – we just refuse to be showy about it

When it comes to climate change, King Charles is a hypocrite. But at least, unlike Rishi Sunak, he tells the truth about the issue

Critics call it Islamophobic – but Emmanuel Macron’s ban on the abaya, the long Islamic dress, in schools has won surprising support

Nicolas Sarkozy’s reappearance in the media demonstrates that public opinion in the country is far from uniform