The tax inquiry by a powerful US Senate subcommittee into computer giant Apple and the financial advantages it enjoys in Ireland comes as bad n(...)

French president Francois Hollande has signed a law authorising gay marriage and adoption by same-sex couples, after months of nationwide protests (...)

The European Commission yesterday urged France to accelerate the implementation of structural reforms, as the commission confirmed that France (...)

The European Union yesterday pledged an extra €520 million in international aid to Mali over the next two years, with Ireland committing €2.5 m(...)

President François Hollande will make a one-day trip to Brussels today to see President José Manuel Barroso and all 27 EU commissioners, then c(...)

France is preparing to tax smartphones, tablets and all other internet-linked devices to help fund the production of French art, films and musi(...)

“What happened happened,” French president François Hollande said yesterday when he rejected demands from a black(...)

The Bourbons, as Talleyrand once remarked, learned nothing and forgot nothing. What was true of the rulers of France some two centuries ago see(...)

Europe’s move to give France two more years to cut its public deficit to below 3 per cent marks the end of the “austerity dogma” in Europe, Fre(...)

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the MEP and founder of the parti de gauche (party of the left), chose t(...)