The Irish Times

Hollande unveils €2bn job-boosting plan to tackle ‘emergency’

France's president has moved to address years of structural unemployment

Mon Jan 18 2016 - 18:50

Nicolas Sarkozy outraged over link to ‘Air Cocaine’ affair

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy accuses socialist government of harassment

Wed Nov 04 2015 - 01:00

Marine Le Pen tried for incitement to religious hatred

National Front leader insists she was not comparing street prayers with Nazis

Tue Oct 20 2015 - 18:22

Mainstream French politicians keep level head on migration

Divided public opinion explains why French politicians emphasise rules and the repression of traffickers as much as humanity

Thu Sept 17 2015 - 01:00

French public and political class afraid to address migrant crisis

Code of silence prompted perhaps by a collective guilty conscience, and fear of strengthening the extreme right-wing National Front

Sat Aug 29 2015 - 08:56

Marine Le Pen loses control of May Day to topless activists and elderly father

National Front leader’s attempts to legitimse party are an uphill battle

Sat May 02 2015 - 01:00

Le Pens at war as daughter openly opposes her father

Marine Le Pen accuses her National Front-founder father of ‘political suicide’

Thu Apr 09 2015 - 01:00

Anti-Semitism ‘like leprosy’, Francois Hollande says

French president trying to rebuild unity between Jewish and Muslim communities

Tue Feb 24 2015 - 22:14

Politesse junked as Sarkozy looks to presidency

Infighting is order of day in France’s main conservative party UMP

Tue Nov 25 2014 - 01:00

French liberal professions go on strike in battle to stave off deregulation

Ninety per cent of France’s 22,000 pharmacies shut down

Wed Oct 01 2014 - 06:46

French political meltdown follows EU elections

Marine Le Pen sounds off as leadership of UMP resign, writes Lara Marlowe

Wed May 28 2014 - 01:00

Home truths from trusted source shed light on French stagnation

Socialist politician Hubert Védrine’s new book has all of France talking

Mon May 12 2014 - 01:00

National Front campaign is vehemently anti-EU

Eurosceptic party could win one third of French seats in Strasbourg, writes Lara Marlowe

Fri May 02 2014 - 01:00