France was poised for major change Sunday night when Socialist candidate François Hollande looked set to beat conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in runoff balloting for France’s presidency.

(Bloomberg) -- President Emmanuel Macron will meet with Bernard Cazeneuve, a former Socialist Party official and ex-premier, on Monday as he heads toward naming France’s next prime minister. He also ...

PARIS (AP) — Nine competitors are bidding to be the Socialist Party's candidate in next year's French presidential election. Among those who declared their candidacy by Thursday's deadline are former ...

PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande's new Socialist-led government adopted a 30 percent pay cut Thursday, a gesture of shared sacrifice by leaders who must now reduce the country's massive ...

Hundreds of thousands of people marched Saturday against President Emmanuel Macron’s naming of Michel Barnier to head a right-wing government backed by the neo-fascist National Rally (RN). Tens of ...

POITIERS, FRANCE — Socialist Segolene Royal began her campaign to become France's first woman president in this bucolic region of Cognac vineyards and farm fields, trying out policies like free birth ...

Two men have been taken into custody in France and charged for allegedly burgling the Paris home of ex-president François ...

VALENCIENNES, France (Reuters) - In France's former mining heartland, promises by the Communist Party's first presidential candidate in 15 years to raise the minimum wage, lower the retirement age and ...

The global crisis of capitalism and its ecological dimension are provoking a major political crisis. In the countries of the Global North, and in France in particular, the bourgeoisie is seeking to ...

A leftist coalition, the New Popular Front, has won the most seats in the 2024 French legislative election, beating back a ...