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Lara Marlowe

Lara Marlowe

Paris Correspondent

Lara Marlowe is Paris Correspondent with The Irish Times.

Christine Lagarde arrives at a court for hearing in Paris yesterday. Photograph: Jacques Brinon/AP
Chirstine Lagarde may be subject to criminal investigation

IMF chief questioned over alleged fraud and misuse of public funds in 2008

British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande, adjust their earpieces during a press conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Photograph: Thibault Camus/AP
Hollande and Cameron alter position on Syria solution

Leaders step back from previous commitment to arm Syrian rebels

French minister for higher education and research, Geneviève Fioraso presented the draft law including the proposal two months ago. Photograph: Jean-Sebastien Evrard/AFP/Getty Images
French to debate whether to teach university courses in English

French journalist Edwy Plenel founder and managing editor of French online newspaper Mediapart. He will testify tomorrow at a French parliamentary commission into the Jérôme Cahuzac affair, in which Mediapart revealed that the socialist minister of the budget had stashed at least €600,000 in Switzerland and Singapore, was about “the struggle of the little media David against all the Goliaths”. Photograph: Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images
Vigilante’ editor seeks out corruption and abuse in French political and financial life

French president François Hollande replies to questions after his speech at the Élysée Palace yesterday. Photograph: Benoit Tessier/Reuters
Hollande vows to launch European initiative

Plan would set up an economic government for euro zone, says French president

François Hollande: a rumour had circulated that the commission wanted to question the president on the speed of French reforms. However, an aide insisted the meeting “has nothing to do with” this. Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters
Hollande in Brussels for first meeting with European Commission

Visit the first by a French president with commission since 1997

French president François Hollande attending a ceremony at the Luxembourg Gardens to mark the abolition of slavery and to pay tribute to the victims of the slave trade in Paris yesterday. Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters
Hollande rejects demand for slavery reparations

Representative Council of Black Associations to file lawsuit against French state-owned bank

A staff member places photos on a wall showing portraits of European Union citizens outside the EU Commission building during Europe Day 2013 in Brussels. Photograph: Reuters
France’s Europe Day blues replace decades of red-blooded celebrations

Since 2004, the number of French people who say they lack confidence in the EU has risen from 40 to 56 per cent

Paris Plage, the artificial beach provided in central Paris in summertime. Photograph: Reuters/Philippe Wojazer
Are the French lazy? Perhaps not, but they exhibit a definite preference for leisure

IMF charge of ‘preference for leisure’ rings true

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