After months of dithering, the French president’s choice of prime minister leaves him more vulnerable than everWaiting two months for a new prime minister may be standard procedure for the Belgians, Dutch, Germans or Italians, inured to extended coalit…
In addition to high costs, Boom Supersonic’s efforts to revive faster-than-sound passenger flights face climate and sustainability worries.
Kamala Harris’ national security adviser is one of a dying breed of top U.S. officials with deep knowledge of Europe.
The New Popular Front stands on the cusp of a victory that has the potential to transform the course of French history.
Gabriel Attal and Gérald Darmanin are jostling for what’s left of the French president’s party.
The far-right leader, while not down and out, faces an uphill task in the 2027 presidential election.
Tactical voting kept the far right from election victory – but with gridlock in parliament the future is unclearFrance’s snap elections have produced the most fragmented parliament since Charles de Gaulle founded the Fifth Republic. The two-round major…
The president is a lonely, tragic figure whose strange personality has inflicted chaos and carnage on French politics.
America has protected Europe with is nuclear umbrella for more than 70 years. In the era of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, the continent is quietly debating a different nuclear future.
Military and foreign policy have long been seen as the “reserved domain” of the president — but the far right is challenging that assumption.
The 26-year-old Russian-Ukrainian was arrested in his hotel near Charles de Gaulle airport on June 3, after an accident while making explosives. He was planning to target a hardware store north of Paris, as part of a sabotage campaign orchestrated by M…
Political boundaries are shifting in Sarthe, a traditional bastion of the French conservatives.
French political circles are openly discussing the possibility of a very Italian option: an emergency government of experts.
It’s far less important to know how Le Pen exorcised her party’s past demons than how a National Rally government will exercise power.
Global strategic and financial consequences hang on the outcome of the June 30 and July 7 ballot — a complex, two-round process that needs some explanation.
The Le Pen family drama, Éric Ciotti apparently locking himself in his office … it would almost be funny if it weren’t so bleakÉric Ciotti, exit stage right. On 11 June, the leader of France’s legacy centre-right party Les Républicains (LR) went on TV …
Charles de Gaulle famously complained that governing a country with 246 kinds of cheese was all but impossible. Less known is what De Gaulle said just before that: “Only peril can bring the French together”. President Emmanuel Macron had peril on his …
France’s leader has changed his country and Europe — and not in ways that he necessarily intended.
The leader of France’s center right Les Républicains triggered a firestorm with his suggestion of an alliance with the far right.
“Chirac died a second time.”
Macron’s big bet after his party’s European election loss could backfire.
On the eve of D-day, the wartime British PM drafted a letter that could have ended De Gaulle’s political careerIt is a letter that might have changed the course of European history- had it been sent.In early June 1944, a vast armada was gathering on th…
