Emmanuel Macron won’t be a lame duck leader in second term, say allies
One of his immediate challenges will be naming what is expected to be a new government, with Jean Castex, the prime minister, expected to resign next week….
I owe you, Emmanuel Macron tells voters in French election victory speech
He became the first French president to be elected for a second straight term in 20 years, and the first in modern history to do so outside…
Are Emmanuel Macron’s policies enough to overcome his hard-Right French election rival?
In his only mass rally on April 2 in Paris, Macron cited Brexit to suggest that that the unthinkable “can happen” and that his main rival and…
Priest stabbed multiple times in Nice
A priest has been attacked with a knife in a church in Nice, southern France, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on his Twitter feed on Sunday. He…
Why the EU’s future hinges on the French election result
The future of the European Union hangs in the balance as French voters head to the polls to elect their new president. The vote is a “referendum…
Big-spending Emmanuel Macron 2.0 would be a catastrophe for the eurozone
Unlike Italy, now safely relegated to fourth place in the league table of the biggest debtors, more than half of France’s notes are held globally. Just about…
French presidential election 2022: When is the election and who could win?
The challenger: Marine Le Pen Despite being defeated in the run-off in 2017, Marine Le Pen is still the second most popular candidate after Macron. She will…
Emmanuel Macron’s first term in seven charts
But for Mr Macron, this seemingly low approval rating is something of a comeback. A high-profile resignation of a military chief and the start of his economic…
French election debate: Emmanuel Macron accuses Marine Le Pen of provoking ‘civil war’ with hijab ban
Earlier, Alexander Navalny, the jailed Russian dissident, had accused Ms Le Pen of entering a corrupt “influence peddling” pact with Mr Putin in exchange for a €9 million…
French presidential election 2022: When is the run-off and who won the TV debate?
The challenger: Marine Le Pen Despite being defeated in the run-off in 2017, Marine Le Pen is still the second most popular candidate after Macron. She will…
Are Emmanuel Macron’s policies enough to overcome his hard-Right rival?
In his only mass rally on April 2 in Paris, Macron cited Brexit to suggest that that the unthinkable “can happen” and that his main rival and…
French presidential election 2022: When is the run-off and who could win?
The challenger: Marine Le Pen Despite being defeated in the run-off in 2017, Marine Le Pen is still the second most popular candidate after Macron. She will…
Macron’s chest-baring photoshoot shows he-vage is back
There he was, lilac shirt slashed open to the naval, drawing the curtain back on a leather thong necklace and fuzzy, tanned barrel chest. Comments ranged from…
Marine Le Pen abandons controversial hijab policy as polls show Emmanuel Macron extending his lead
The candidates are currently preparing for a prime-time debate that has historically proved decisive for any would-be president. Macron will defend his record over the past five…
‘It’s between the plague and cholera’: Marseille still undecided on Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen
Emmanuel Macron on Saturday chose the sweltering melting pot of Marseille to paint himself Green as he gunned for the key Left-wing and youth vote in a…
Macron attacks ‘astronomic’ pay for bosses as French election battle heats up
Emmanuel Macron has launched an assault on highly paid bosses as he battles the populist policies of Marine Le Pen, his Hard-Right challenger for the French presidency….
Macron’s disastrous campaign may yet doom him to defeat
The result of the first round of French elections looked to Emmanuel Macron’s supporters like a vindication of his strategy. The French president, who stayed aloof from…
Emmanuel Macron is reframing election as Brexit re-run ahead of showdown with Marine Le Pen
Ms Le Pen dropped her calls for a Frexit referendum and for Paris to leave the euro after she was trounced by Mr Macron in 2017. But…
France’s future hangs in the balance
The received wisdom is that in the electoral runoff in France on April 24 between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, the president will win. The French,…
France’s populist revolt is coming
What did they mean by that? The French public has delivered a first-round result in their presidential election that leaves political nerds unable to reach a consensus…
Stubborn and divided, the French Left risk a Marine Le Pen victory
Over dinner last month, I asked a French colleague what his prediction was for his country’s presidential election. He shrugged in a delightfully Gallic fashion and said…
Macron has failed on his own terms
There is a third contender in the second round of the French election, and it might triumph over both Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron. It’s called…
France should take a leaf out of Brexit Britain’s book
Britain, as you’ll know from watching Channel 4 (soon to be sold to Pizza Hut), is a right-wing theme park, the most absurd and irrelevant country in…
French presidential election 2022: When is the run-off and when will we know the results?
The challenger: Marine Le Pen Despite being defeated in the run-off in 2017, Marine Le Pen is still the second most popular candidate after Macron. She will…
Emmanuel Macron to face Marine Le Pen in bruising French election run-off
Addressing his cheering supporters late on Sunday, Macron said: “Let’s make no mistake, nothing has been decided yet.” To chants of “one, two, five more years”, Mr…