#France

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier underwent surgery on a cervical lesion over the weekend, his doctor said in a statement shared by Barnier’s office on Monday. The operation went ...

France is hoping that a meeting on Thursday of some 70 delegations to support Lebanon will raise about €500 million in humanitarian aid, according to a foreign ministry framework document for the ...

France’s main farmers’ union said on Tuesday it would stage nationwide protests next month as a push to conclude a trade deal between the European Union and Mercosur countries ...

Massive floods caused serious damage and power outages on Friday in parts of France’s mountainous southeast region after days of heavy rain, though there were no immediate reports of ...

France’s belt-tightening budget is meant to regain control over its “colossal” debt burden, Finance Minister Antoine Armand said on Friday,adding that the government was keeping a close eye ...

Algeria excluded French companies from a wheat import tender this week and required that participating firms did not offer French-origin wheat, in apparent fallout from renewed diplomatic tensions between Algiers ...

President Nikos Christodoulides discussed Cyprus’ electrical interconnection, among other topics, at a trilateral meeting held between Cyprus, Greece, and France, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting. The ...

Hundreds of people, mostly women, gathered in cities across France on Saturday in support of Gisele Pelicot whose husband is on trial, accused of drugging her and recruiting dozens of ...

France has asked the European Commission to extend beyond September 20 a deadline for submitting a plan to reduce its public deficit to align with Paris’ 2025 draft budget, La Tribune du ...

Serbia on Thursday signed a landmark agreement with France’s Dassault Aviation AM.PA for the purchase of 12 new Rafale fighter jets for 2.7 billion euros ($2.99 billion). The agreement, signed by ...

France’s Socialists and Greens will not participate in further talks with President Emmanuel Macron to find a way out of political deadlock, their leaders said on Tuesday, calling on ...

A French police officer was injured on Saturday when a blazing car exploded in the car park of a synagogue in the town of La Grande-Motte, a union representative said, ...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s office racked up a multi-million euro budget overrun last year as it pulled out the stops on a lavish lobster dinner for Britain’s King ...

France’s outgoing parliament president Yael Braun-Pivet won a second mandate on Thursday, in a vote that President Emmanuel Macron’s camp hopes will boost their chances to run the ...

A police officer was critically injured in a stabbing attack in Paris’ Champs Elysees shopping district on Thursday after a security guard at a boutique called police after spotting a ...

A car drove into the terrace of a cafe in the 20th arrondissement in northern Paris on Wednesday evening, leaving one dead and six injured, including three in a critical ...

France’s left-wing parties fought bitterly on Tuesday over who to put forward as prime minister, leading Communist party leader Fabien Roussel to warn they were risking a “shipwreck” despite ...

President Nikos Christodoulides promised on Friday there would be “good news” regarding the Cyprus problem “before the end of the year”. Speaking at an event to mark Bastille Day organised ...

The spire of the gothic cathedral of the French city of Rouen in Normandy caught fire on Thursday during renovation works, television images showed. The cathedral, one of France’s ...

France faced a hung parliament and difficult negotiations starting Monday to form a government, after a surprise left-wing surge blocked Marine Le Pen’s quest to bring the far right ...

French President Emmanuel Macron asked his prime minister on Monday to stay on for now, pending what will be difficult negotiations to form a government after a surprise left-wing surge ...

France was on course for a hung parliament in Sunday’s election, with a leftist alliance unexpectedly taking the top spot ahead of the far right, in a major upset ...

Nothing else in France looks like the 1930s, so why should fascism? There really is a fascist movement in France, although it avoids torch-lit marches and jackboots. It has even ...

France voted on Sunday in a parliamentary run-off election with the far-right National Rally (RN) bidding for power but likely to fall short of a majority, raising the spectre of ...