French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Berlin on Monday to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on his first official visit, just over 24 hours after being inaugurated in Paris.Visiting Germany on their first official trip has become de rig

President Emmanuel Macron named Édouard Philippe, 46, from the centre-right Les Républicains party as France’s new prime minister on Monday in what was widely seen as a bid to draw leading figures from the conservative opposition into his camp.Philip

President Emmanuel Macron on his first inte ational trip as France’s president called for a "historic rebuilding" of Europe in the face of rising populism, and the risk of EU stagnation and disintegration.Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel p

Tensions over president-elect Emmanuel Macron's bid to redraw France's political map burst into the open Friday as a key ally was briefly angered ahead of crucial parliamentary elections next month.Macron a oyed fellow centrist Francois Bayrou and f

Factories of the French car-making giant Renault which had been closed by the massive cyber attack that affected 150 countries over the weekend would resume operation Monday, a representative said.“Starting yesterday evening all our sites have been g

Independent centrist Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old political neophyte, has officially become the youngest president ever elected in France and the youngest serving leader of a G7 nation.Sunday mo ing’s handover of power between the outgoing Sociali

The United Kingdom may be quitting the European Union, but at least one delightful vestige of the marriage will be left behind. The storied Taittinger champagne house this month planted its first vines in English soil. The most recent step in a proj

French President-elect Emmanuel Macron on Thursday revealed his party's candidates for the June legislative elections, with a list that does not include former prime minister Manuel Valls.Macron rejected a bid by Valls to run as its candidate as part

With President-elect Emmanuel Macron poised to take power on Sunday in Paris, French Ambassador to the US Gérard Araud, who served as diplomatic advisor to the candidate, sat down with FRANCE 24’s Philip Crowther in Washington.Araud discusses his ope

France's beleaguered Socialist party suffered a severe and demoralising defeat in the first round of the French presidential election Sunday, a result that could spell disaster for the century-old party, according to analysts.The party's candidate, Benoît Hamon, scored just 6.2 percent of the vote,

Emmanuel Macron, little known to the French public just three years ago, is now favourite to win the country's presidency after topping Sunday's first round vote, but faces his biggest challenge yet as he takes on far-right rival Marine Le Pen.According to an almost-complete count, Macron beat Le Pe

Independent centrist Emmanuel Macron will face anti-EU, anti-immigration candidate Marine Le Pen in the French presidential run-off duel on May 7, according to initial estimates after Sunday’s hotly contested first round.If Macron tops the first round – his score two hours after polls closed was est

France’s ruling Socialist Party appears headed for an historic drubbing. Crowned the mainstream left’s presidential nominee in January, Benoît Hamon could fail to clear even single digit support in Sunday’s all-important first-round vote.On the last Monday before France’s April 23 first-round presid

Twenty members of a suspected jihadist network thought to have been behind a grenade attack on a Jewish grocery store in 2012 went on trial in France Thursday on terror charges.The "Ca es-Torcy cell", named for the towns where its members were based, is suspected of having pla ed several other att

French investigators are trying to piece together the backgrounds of two men arrested a few days before the first round of France's presidential election as they were allegedly pla ing an "imminent" attack in the southe port city of Marseille.Clément Baur, 23, and Mahiedine Merabet, 29, two conve

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's comments that last week's chemical weapons attack was a fabrication to justify a US military strike are "100 percent lies", French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Friday."It's 100 percent lies and propaganda," Ayrault said during a visit to Beijing, respond

When the official selection for the Ca es Film Festival’s 70th a ual edition was unveiled Thursday, a clear theme could be seen in many of the picks: the migrant crisis. FRANCE 24 takes a look at the films selected both in and out of competition - this year the films take the bu ing issues challe

There’s an ongoing dialogue in the FRANCE 24 newsroom on the challenge of translating French presidential hopefuls’ slogans and party names into the “language of Shakespeare.” As the election approaches, we take a closer look at the trickiest cases.In order of awkwardness, we’ll start with the campa

A top Syrian official attended a conference in Paris Tuesday on the invitation of French lawmakers, angering the gove ment days after he was ba ed from a similar meeting in Brussels. French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault tweeted that he was "outraged" by lawmakers from the conservative Republi

National Front leader Marine Le Pen sparked controversy in France on Sunday when she said the French State was not responsible for the Nazi-ordered round-up of more than 13,000 Jews at Paris’s Vel d’Hiv cycling track in 1942.In so doing, she called into question the role French authorities played in