Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s French election defeat is starting to feel like a victory
Far-left party leader relishing the role of arbiter and kingmaker
Far-left party leader relishing the role of arbiter and kingmaker
Several European leaders self-isolating or in quarantine after meetings with French president
French president summons senior officials after beating of black man triggers outrage
Macron reshuffled team to drive unity while fragmenting opposition in run to 2022
Edouard Philippe has thrived in recent crises and overtaken the president in popularity
Majority of primary schools to reopen and wider travel permitted from Monday
Immigrant communities try to break stigmas as they endure growing inequality
Anti-terrorism investigation under way after man is arrested in Romans-sur-Isère
Italy’s PM Giuseppe Conte rises to occasion but others struggle to reassure fearful public
Only 28,000 protesters take to streets in rolling campaign against low pay and poverty
‘Responsibilities will be established. Justice will pass, as it must’
Islamist cleared for access to all computers in police prefecture’s directorate of intelligence
Mickael H sent more than 30 religious texts to his wife before killing four people
Civil servant attacked woman supervisor and three male police officers with kitchen knife
Steve Caniço’s body found in river Loire a month after police raid on music festival
Paris Letter: Maurice the rooster is talk of France, but he's not the one fowling up my mornings
NGO ship defied ban on unauthorised migrant arrivals
Carola Rackete a symbol of defiance for challenging Matteo Salvini’s authority
Demonstrators criticise fundraising for Notre Dame rebuild as not for ‘the poor’
The Irish approach is relatively benign compared with that of the UK and France
Macron returns to Paris vowing ‘strong, additional decisions’ in worst riots in months
Violence flares up as ‘gilets jaunes’ protests against President Macron enter fourth month
Authorities examine options to detain the ‘potentially dangerous’ French citizens
‘Attacking journalists is attacking the right to inform,’ says interior minister
Riverboat set on fire and ministry building door smashed with fork-lift truck in Paris
Six Iranian men were found on a beach in Kent on Sunday morning with a small boat
French investigators reportedly find video of Cherif Chekatt declaring support for Isis
Paris Letter: Debate will attempt to ‘take the pulse of the country’ after widespread unrest
Thousands take to the streets for the fifth weekend despite Strasbourg attack
Demonstrations to continue despite demands to call off action after Strasbourg attack
Fourth victim, an Italian journalist aged 29, dies following Tuesday’s attack in French city
Terror investigation begins after two killed by gunman near Christmas market
Barricade of burning rubbish bins built as ‘yellow vests’ demonstrate
Large segment of population view Macron as the ‘president of the rich’
Anger over fuel taxes worsens over falling living standards and Macron’s perceived aloofness
Escalating violence and public anger against reforms catch French president off-guard
Police fire tear gas and water cannons to disperse demonstrators in Paris
Numbers of ‘gilets jaunes’ taxation protesters drop sharply from preceding week
‘Yellow vests’ movement causes logjams on highways in rally against fuel tax hikes
Rise of the ‘gilets jaunes’ coincides with Macron’s record low 26% approval rating
President’s nascent party holds its line on core principle of being ‘viscerally pro-European’
Macron tells hero Mamoudou Gassama (22) that Paris fire department will hire him
French president denounces labour reform critics as ‘slackers’ ahead of mass rallies
President may be torn between promise to define a role for his wife and public opinion
Presidential candidates thrash out alliances while Fillon struggles with wife’s job scandals
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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