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Controversy builds in France as 130 jihadists to return from Syria
- Europe
- January 31, 2019, 19:00
Opposition politicians in France have responded with alarm to government confirmation that 130 French jihadists are to be repatriated from Syria. The(...)

Several police vehicles were parked on the corner below my apartment building. Cops checked identity papers of pedestrians in my neighbourhood, where (...)

Ségolène Royal staging umpteenth comeback in French politics
- Europe
- November 17, 2018, 05:01
If there were a prize for sheer dogged indestructibility in French politics, Ségolène Royal would surely win it. The first woman to make it to the ru(...)

Macron to start six-day commemorative visit of WWI frontlines
- Europe
- November 3, 2018, 05:01
French president Emmanuel Macron will begin a marathon, six-day pilgrimage to key locations of the first World War on Sunday, with German president Fr(...)

French political novelist accuses Macron’s elitism of fuelling populism
- Europe
- October 16, 2018, 02:00
While waiters at the Senate restaurant hovered over Aurélie Filippetti, calling the former culture minister madame la ministre, the Socialist Party wa(...)

Former French PM seeks political redemption in Barcelona
- Europe
- September 25, 2018, 02:00
Manuel Valls was born 56 years ago in Barcelona, but his Swiss mother and Catalan father, a well-known painter, moved to Paris to escape Franco’s rule(...)

Ruadhán Mac Cormaic: Macron shines light on France’s dark past
- Opinion
- September 22, 2018, 05:00
Every war is fought twice: once for supremacy on the battlefield, then for control of its memory. The Algerian war lasted eight years, from 1954 to 19(...)

Macron dealt big blow as ecology minister quits on live radio
- Europe
- August 28, 2018, 18:36
President Emmanuel Macron has again been plunged into political crisis, this time by the on-air resignation of the most popular member of his cabinet,(...)

How the World Cup reflects – and subverts – the world we live in
- Opinion
- June 16, 2018, 05:00
Sport and politics shouldn’t mix, goes the earnest cliché. Except they do – all the time. And that’s partly what makes some sports so interesting. The(...)

Nicolas Sarkozy to face trial for corruption, influence-peddling
- Europe
- March 29, 2018, 17:21
Nicolas Sarkozy’s legal woes deepened on Thursday after judges decided to send the former French president for trial over allegations of corruption an(...)