Hoping to squeeze out foreign workers and reap electoral rewards, a number of French regions have passed a controversial rule obliging workers on building sites to speak the language of Molière.At first glance, it looks like another of those exquisitely Gallic rows over the spelling of “oignon”, or

A day after his party was accused of painting a presidential campaign rival in an anti-Semitic light, conservative candidate François Fillon finally called for those responsible to be punished.Fillon’s Les Républicains party was accused of attacking the independent centrist Emmanuel Macron on anti-S

Once considered one of France’s leading figures in the fight to “de-radicalise” prospective jihadists, Sonia Imloul on Monday went on trial over accusations she embezzled as much as €60,000 and failed to pay her employees.Imloul ga ered wide attention in 2014 for creating one of the country’s first

Having somehow survived the scandal involving his wife’s lushly paid “fake jobs”, François Fillon attempted on Monday to get his campaign for the French presidency back on track – only to find himself mired in further controversy.Remember TINA? Margaret Thatcher’s oft-quoted slogan, “There Is No Alt

Police have launched an investigation after Paris St Germain’s players were confronted by angry supporters upon their retu to the French capital on Wednesday following their 6-1 Champions League defeat in Barcelona, the Ligue 1

French Socialist candidate Benoît Hamon is struggling to get his presidential campaign back on track as a growing number of party bigwigs publicly consider voting instead for centrist Emmanuel Macron, a former economy minister.Rem

French-Swiss cement maker LafargeHolcim came under fire this week after offering to supply materials for US President Donald Trump’s pla ed wall on the Mexican border. But the company has a long history of questionable business p

A young black man who claims he was raped by police with a baton in a Paris suburb has left hospital and thanked supporters in France and abroad for rallying around him.The 22-year-old man, identified publicly only by his first name, Théo, said in a Facebook video on Thursday that the notes and visi...

A group of 80 refugees from France’s “Jungle” camp in the northe port city of Calais have been selected to attend university as part of an initiative to help them ea a degree in preparation for life in their new host country.They were chosen from a pool of 200 applicants from the “Jungle” – a sprawl...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Friday vehemently denied having ever admitted to anti-fraud investigators that she misused EU funds to pay her bodyguard, saying she is the target of outright lies. “It’s a shameless lie, I have never admitted such a thing to investigators,” the National Fron...

French security forces are on high alert as the country prepares to see in the New Year, with 10,000 police officers deployed in the Paris region alone to guarantee the safety of residents and tourists. Around 600,000 revellers are expected to gather on the French capital's iconic Avenue des Champs-...

Following the Berlin attack, suspected assailant Anis Amri travelled from Germany to the Netherlands and then on to France before heading to Italy where police shot him dead, investigative sources revealed Wednesday. Two days after the December 19 attack on a Christmas market in Berlin left 12 dead,...

A French mayor who is a member of France’s right-wing eurosceptic National Front party has renamed a street in his town “rue de Brexit”, meant as a “homage” to Britain's decision to leave the European Union in June. Mayor Julien Sanchez called his decision to rename the street in the southe French t...

A woman who killed her abusive husband and became a symbol of the suffering of France's domestic violence victims walked free from prison on Wednesday after receiving a presidential pardon. President Francois Hollande granted the pardon because he "considered that (Jacqueline) Sauvage's place was no...

Investigators probing the killing of a worker at a missionary retirement home in southe France believe it was a local crime and are not treating it as a terror attack, a prosecutor said Friday after police arrested a suspect. The slaying set nerves jangling in France late Thursday after a string of ...

With 84 million tourists each year, France is the most visited country in the world. But the numbers have dropped sharply as the country's tourist industry faces the threat of terrorism. We take a look at what Paris is doing to seduce tourists back to all region of France, from increased security to...

Former prime minister François Fillon looked on Friday to be in a strong position to claim his centre-right party’s nomination to contest next year’s French presidential election as he and rival Alain Juppé held final rallies of the primary campaign. In an impassioned speech to supporters in Paris, ...

French investigators have identified a Syrian-based extremist with Belgian and Moroccan nationalities who is thought to have plotted the attacks in Paris and Brussels, sources close to the case told the AFP on Tuesday. Oussama Atar, 32, believed to be a member of the Islamic State group, was already...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Wednesday said Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election was "good news" for France. "I repeat, the election of Donald Trump is good news for our country," said Le Pen, who will be the anti-immigration National Front's candidate in France's 2017 ...

A refugee and migrant shelter with beds for 400 single men opened Thursday in northe Paris, part of an ongoing drive to take asylum-seekers off French streets after the demolition of the Calais "Jungle". “Only a few migrants came here this mo ing”, said FRANCE 24’s Charlotte Boitiaux, who was at the...