Remember 2023 when the French were rioting over plans to raise the pension age from 62 to 64? It seemed like the matter was ...

France’s new prime minister has hinted at plans to water down Emmanuel Macron’s controversial state pension reforms ...

A poll this week in France found that 78 per cent of respondents are in favour of proscribing the wearing of Muslim ...

News that Jean-Marie Le Pen — one of the founders of France’s extreme rightwing political party, the National Front — died on ...

Matein Khalid “O liberty, what crimes are committed in your name!”. So lamented a Girondist noblewoman as she gazed at the guillotine ...

By Loukis Skaliotis Recently the Cyprus Mail was warning that the government budget was pushing the public sector wage bill ...

I am a 60-year-old Scotsman with a penchant for red suspenders, oolong tea and the novels of Walter Scott, so no one will ever accuse me of being an arbiter of cool. But to understand politics and ...

Political uncertainty hits France's services sector, PMI shows December 4, 2024 French Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Thursday ... iTunes Store, Books and Podcasts. Apple told by EU to end ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. As we prepare to turn the corner into 2025, poetry is in the spotlight this week, with new books of verse from Percival Everett ...

Francois Bayreau, leader of the French centrist party Mouvement democrate, took over as prime minister from the ousted Michel Barnier on Dec ... and the author of the books “Pivotal Poland ...

French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Bayrou as French prime minister this month, after the National Rally and the New Popular Front coalition joined forces to topple Michel Barnier’s government ...

Since Macron appointed Michel Barnier as prime minister in September ... €4bn for public broadcasting and €700m for media, books and cultural industries. This means the state’s overall ...