The Irish Times

France’s Macron promises new approach during second-term inauguration

Re-elected president speaks of need to innovate at a time of unprecedented challenges

Sat May 07 2022 - 13:26

Marine Le Pen energises final stretch of France’s presidential campaign

‘Extremist danger today is even greater than it was a . . . few years ago,’ cautions Macron

Tue Apr 05 2022 - 18:06

French connection puts Spain’s liberals on the spot

Macron alarmed as Spanish centrists Ciudadanos forms governing alliances with far right

Tue Jun 18 2019 - 01:00

Battle for Barcelona wide open as Spain’s ‘Super Sunday’ looms

Parties jostle as regional, municipal and EU elections held on same day

Fri May 24 2019 - 01:00

Spanish far-right party threatens impasse over ‘supremacist feminism’

Vox’s support needed to form new right-wing government in Andalucía

Fri Jan 04 2019 - 17:08

Spanish parties court far-right support after Andalucía election

Election leaves conservatives seeking backing of Vox to form new government

Thu Dec 06 2018 - 14:50

Minister’s chaotic departure marks serious crisis for Macron

French president has now lost the three heavyweight ‘ministers of state’ appointed after his election

Thu Oct 04 2018 - 02:00

Former French PM seeks political redemption in Barcelona

Paris Letter: Manuel Valls wants to be mayor of Catalan capital having been outdone by Macron

Tue Sept 25 2018 - 02:00

Emmanuel Macron refuses to recognise Jerusalem as capital of Israel

Trump’s recognition an error France will not repeat, says president

Thu Mar 08 2018 - 16:26

French far-left leader’s tongue gets him in hot water

Mélenchon calls EU flag ‘sectarian emblem’ symbolising Christian origins

Fri Oct 13 2017 - 18:00

Emmanuel Macron sides with Spain in Catalan independence dispute

French president says he will not interfere in Spanish internal affairs

Wed Oct 11 2017 - 17:54

Macron continues to defy expectations with poll absolute majority

French president has made impressive start but big challenge is to motivate jaded voters

Mon Jun 19 2017 - 18:07

France’s Socialist Party in throes of legislative election disaster

The party of Mitterrand and Jaurès is set to lose 90% of its nearly 300 seats

Tue Jun 13 2017 - 01:00

Poland rejects ‘protectionist’ EU labour market reform

Changes for workers who move countries would stoke divisions, minister warns

Tue Jun 06 2017 - 19:44

Emmanuel Macron seeks majority in France’s legislative elections

Next month’s vote appears likely to result in young, inexperienced assembly

Mon May 22 2017 - 20:38

Candidates line up to be part of Macron’s En Marche! movement

Party of France’s president-elect begins assembling new kind of democracy

Thu May 11 2017 - 19:16

Macron cabinet selections show strategy of divide and rule

President-elect boosted as former socialist prime minister Manuel Valls joins ticket

Tue May 09 2017 - 17:48

Macron has shown grit and guile, but can he go the distance?

The new, untried president faces the enormous task of arresting France’s slide

Sun May 07 2017 - 19:38

French election: A tumultuous campaign leaves Macron poised

How France slowly, but surely, came round to the idea of a Macron presidency

Sat May 06 2017 - 01:00

French election: it’s all about Marine

Outcome as key to the future of Europe as it is to France

Thu Apr 20 2017 - 16:45

Immigrants turning France into ‘enormous squat’, says Le Pen

Far-right leader rouses supporters in final rally ahead of presidential vote on Sunday

Thu Apr 20 2017 - 10:00

French Socialists angered as former PM Valls defects to Macron

Backing of poll-leading presidential candidate compounds left-right splits within party

Wed Mar 29 2017 - 14:00

French election is ‘unthinkable, unprecedented’ says pollster

Director of France’s oldest polling company thinks Le Pen will be defeated in run-off

Fri Mar 10 2017 - 01:00

Emmanuel Macron’s ambitions received boost from ‘exotic’ Royal

Presidential candidates thrash out alliances while Fillon struggles with wife’s job scandals

Tue Jan 31 2017 - 20:02

French socialists choose Benoit Hamon as presidential nominee

Far-left candidate easily beats Valls in primary as Fillon struggles over scandal

Sun Jan 29 2017 - 21:02

French election to be showdown between Macron and Le Pen

Former favourite for presidency François Fillon discredited by payments made to wife

Sat Jan 28 2017 - 01:00

French election: When, who, and the likely outcome

Q+A: Is current president François Hollande running again? How many candidates are there?

Mon Jan 23 2017 - 19:00

‘Little Ben’ looks set to pull French Socialists to the left

Likely presidential candidate Benoît Hamon wants a universal basic income

Mon Jan 23 2017 - 17:41

Left-wing rebel surprise winner of French socialist primary

Benoit Hamon unlikely to survive first round of presidential election on April 23rd

Mon Jan 23 2017 - 01:00

Socialists hold primary vote for French presidential nomination

Former PM Manuel Valls faces risk of failing to make run-off between final two candidates

Sun Jan 22 2017 - 10:20

Emmanuel Macron gains support in French presidential race

The Independent candidate has growing momentum despite Marine Le Pen’s taunts

Thu Jan 19 2017 - 01:00

Manual Valls launches bid for Socialists with shift to left

Presidential vote: French ex-PM fends off criticism, proclaims himself ‘profoundly of left’

Tue Jan 03 2017 - 19:00

France’s ‘ministerial Swiss army knife’ replaces Valls as PM

Short-term stand-in Bernard Cazeneuve managed aftermath of 2015-16 terror attacks

Tue Dec 06 2016 - 16:21

France announces Bernard Cazeneuve as new prime minister

French interior minister will replace Manuel Valls who is stepping down to run for president

Tue Dec 06 2016 - 10:14