Emmanuel Macron

Michel Barnier’s decision to push budget through parliament without a vote could trigger a political crisis

Gaping holes left in vaulted ceilings and charred piles of debris gone from 12th-century Gothic masterpiece

Fixture designated ‘high risk’ following recent hooliganism and anti-Semitism in Dutch capital surrounding Maccabi Tel Aviv fans

Prospects of a trade war and collapse of US support for Ukraine pose grave threats to EU

How will Donald Trump's second presidency affect the global fight against climate change?

Warning comes as European leaders congratulate Donald Trump on US election victory

Israel must be ‘held accountable for bombing civilian populations’, Tánaiste said at Beirut aid conference in Paris

US president in Germany to hold talks with Olaf Scholz, Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer

France now finds itself the sick child of Europe, so what would the French president give for a François Hollande figure to step forward?

Hard to imagine Ursula von der Leyen shivving Thierry Breton without the blessing of Macron

Former ECB head gives his diagnosis but European Union likely won’t agree to take its medicine

Left-wing parties accuse the president of stealing elections

Macron accused of giving Le Pen the power of Julius Caesar overseeing a gladiatorial battle, giving a thumbs up or down to his candidate for prime minister

Few foreign politicians are spoken about in Dublin in such glowing terms as the former EU chief Brexit negotiator

French president has been seeking to form new government for two months after losing legislative vote

More than 50 people rescued and two missing after ‘terrible shipwreck’ off coast of Cap Gris-Nez

PM’s meeting with French president follows recent visit to Germany where he said he was not ‘reversing Brexit’ amid plans for treaty

Simon Harris, visiting French president at the Élysée Palace, confirmed no consent had been sought for transport

French president has sole power to name new premier following last month’s inconclusive election

Choosing a prime minister who can appease Macron’s centrist camp, a leftist alliance and the far-right National Rally has proven tricky

The Olympic Games in Paris are about much more than money or medals – they are about the transformation of the French capital

Signature sights of the French capital were paraded with creative, sporting joy in context of geopolitical crises

Democracy requires people to see the need to vote. France, Iran and Poland show the way

UK and French electoral systems have thwarted its advance but the far right is still on the rise globally

French Europhile president will be distracted by domestic problems and less inclined to shake things up

Left-wing bloc says it should be able to govern as centrists seek to win over moderate right republicans

The far right won more votes nationwide than the left alliance and Macron’s centrists but the vote was spread across the country

National Rally official who helped pick contentious candidates steps down from executive committee

The centre and the left in France will need to decide what else they agree on, other than opposing Marine Le Pen

Leftist New Popular Front emerges as dominant force in the National Assembly as Macron’s alliance suffers humbling setback after Sunday’s election

Complicated talks lie ahead after snap elections called by Emmanuel Macron result in hung parliament

Even tear gas from riot police does little to dampen the party atmosphere as the New Popular Front wins the French elections

Macron’s election gamble has engineered a dangerous moment for France and the European Union

Left-wing coalition finishes first in French parliamentary elections as far right kept from power

Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is forecast to win most votes in today’s run-off election but fall short of a majority

Marine Le Pen’s party is set to become the largest in parliament as French people vote in the second round of elections

France might be closer to dictatorship than it has been since the end of the second World War

There are significant parallels - and differences - between countermovements that gripped Europe and the US about 100 years ago and forces shaping politics today

Additional 30,000 police deployed amid fear of street violence as extreme right-wing National Rally is expected to win the largest number of seats in the snap election called by President Macron

Far-right party projected to fall significantly short of 289 seats required to push through its agenda easily