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French presidential campaign shaken by Paris shooting

The gun attack on the Champs-Elysee came during a TV appearance by the eleven candidates in Sunday’s presidential ballot.

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Euroviews. The EU must prepare itself for President Le Pen in France

After the UK's unexpected vote to leave the EU and Donald Trump’s unexpected triumph in the US presidential election last year, you might imagine that EU leaders have developed detailed contingency plans for a victory by the far-right National Front’s Marine Le Pen in France’s presidential election.

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France's unpredictable presidential race enters its final days

Latest polls make the outcome incalculable. While centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right contender Marine Le Pen retain the top spots, there is barely a percentage point between them.

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Far-right, fake jobs and all you need to know about France's pivotal election

If the main course is anything like the entrée, then France is set for even more controversy at the ballot box.

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Second French presidential debate turns into a feisty affair

For the first time 11 candidates in the French presidential election have gone head-to head in a televised debate.

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Euroviews. View: Is Emmanuel Macron the new Napoleon Bonaparte of France?

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France's former PM Valls backs Macron for president

After weeks of speculation, former Socialist Prime Minister Manual Valls has said he will vote for Emmanuel Macron in France’s forthcoming presidential election.

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French Socialist and former PM Valls defects to Macron's centrist camp

Former Socialist prime minister Manuel Valls is the latest to turn his back on his own party and lend his support to centrist Emmanuel Macron, the favourite presidential candidate.

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France election: Valls back Macron

France’s former Prime Minister Manuel Valls will vote for Emmanuel Macron in the presidential election

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The most unpredictable election in French history?

A month before the first round of France's presidential election, polls suggest 43 percent of voters have still not made up their minds about who to vote for.

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Euroviews. Le Pen and Macron: same words but different meanings

With Le Pen, we have a vision that based on a specific idea of the past in need of restoration and which is based on the denunciation of negatively perceived changes in need of removal.

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French presidential debate: Who said what, to whom, and who performed the best?

France's first of three televised presidential debates. Who said what, to whom and which of the five candidates performed the best

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And the winner is? Macron tops polls after French presidential debate

There were no knockout blows in France’s first presidential TV debate.

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11 candidates to contest French presidential election

The race to become France’s next president has officially begun after the definitive list of candidates was published.

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Leftist Hamon slams 'big money' in the French election

Hamon slams the role of 'big money' in the French election

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Euroviews. Je t’adore? How emotion broke into French politics

The 2017 presidential campaign will demonstrate, once again, that emotional appeals have become a necessary and accepted way to convince French voters.

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French centrist Macron gets veteran Socialist backing

Independent French centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron has received a boost to his presidential campaign after winning the backing of a Socialist Party…

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French elections under scrutiny

With less than two months remaining before the French go to the polls, the run-up to the presidential elections has so far been tainted by scandals.

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French election: Macron uses manifesto launch to attack rivals

Emmanuel Macron launches an attack on his two main rivals as he unveils his manifesto ahead of the French presidential election.

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Euroviews. Did the French media conspire to destroy the presidential candidacy of Fillon?

If the French media are not as powerful as one might imagine or fear and if they are not conspiring for or against particular candidates, are they at least performing one of their basic functions in informing voters of the stakes involved in this election? The answer is ‘not enough, at least not yet