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France

French election countdown: Macron 'ahead' but Le Pen fights on

Criticisms fly between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen as the French presidential race enters its final week.

01/05/2017

France

May Day clashes in Paris as tense election looms

Clashes marr May Day march in Paris

01/05/2017

France

French election: Emmanuel Macron raises Frexit fears

French presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron has raised the alarm about the risks of Frexit.

01/05/2017

France

Macron's symbolic Holocaust memorial visit

French presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron visits Paris Holocaust memorial announcing "never again"

30/04/2017

France

Le Pen softens stance on euro

With a week to go until polling day, Marine Le Pen has altered her rhetoric on the common European currency

30/04/2017

France

France's Le Pen picks would-be prime minister

The far-right leader and her former nationalist rival join forces to try to beat centrist Emmanuel Macron to the French presidency.

29/04/2017

Earth News

Five minutes with David Bellamy

David Bellamy (@bellamy_david) is a French influencer based in Versailles noticeable for his endless positive energy.

29/04/2017

France

Marine Le Pen fends off Nazi gas chamber row to savage Macron

Jean-Francois Jalkh, the French far-right presidential contender's replacement as Front National leader, disputes having cast doubt on the Holocaust.

29/04/2017

France

Zidane calls on voters to avoid Le Pen

French football legend and 1998 World Cup winner Zinedine Zidane warns against voting for Marine Le Pen and the National Front in upcoming French presidential election second…

28/04/2017

Economy

France: weak GDP growth ahead of final election round

With the final round of the French presidential election looming, the focus was on anaemic economic growth in the first three months of the year.

28/04/2017

My Europe Series

The State of the Union: EU governments stand firm on Brexit

This is the State of the Union, euronews’ weekly roundup of the top stories from across Europe.

28/04/2017

My Europe Series

Insiders: French civilians take action on terror

Insiders takes an in-depth look at how French society is responding to the threat of terrorist attacks.

28/04/2017

France

France's Macron wants sanctions on Poland, others, for violating EU principles

French centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron said he would push for European Union sanctions against Poland for violating EU principles.

28/04/2017

France

Russia cries "discrimination" as France's Macron bans RT and Sputnik from campaign

Russia accuses presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron of discriminating against its media after the centrist bans Russia's RT and Sputnik.

28/04/2017

France

EU faces €5 million costs over Le Pen's fake jobs allegations

The far right Front National leader Marine Le Pen is accused of fiddling European parliamentary expenses.

27/04/2017

France

Paris police clash with students over presidential election

Many of the student protesters in Paris brandished slogans against Macron and Le Pen

27/04/2017

France

French court refuses to extradite former Kosovan prime minister to Serbia

Ramush Haradinaj was a guerilla commander during the 1998-99 Kosovo war. He has been released with immediate effect.

27/04/2017

France

Secret no more, French candidates' private lives scrutinised in 2017 presidential election

The private lives of France's presidential candidates are being scrutinised in a way that would have been unimaginable decades ago.

27/04/2017

France

French police protest over "lack of recognition"

In Paris hundreds of police officers marched calling for better protection and recognition.

26/04/2017

France

Macron jeered, Le Pen acclaimed at troubled French factory

Both French presidential candidates visit the same troubled factory - and get a very different welcome

26/04/2017

Business Line

How the economic case stacks up in the French presidential election

Business Line looks at the high stakes for Europe and its fragile economic recovery as outsiders Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen face off.

26/04/2017

France

France awards damages to parents of girl who went to Syria

The Council of State ordered the French state to pay 15,000 euros to the parents of a girl who left a Paris airport heading for Syria even though she was on a wanted list.

26/04/2017

France

Ten arrested in probe of 2015 Paris deli attack

French police are said to be questioning 10 people suspected of supplying weapons to Amedy Coulibaly for his deadly attack on a Jewish deli in Paris in 2015.

26/04/2017

Markets

Stock markets calm after Macron rally

Europe's stock markets made moderate gains on Tuesday with as investors shifted their focus from politics to business fundamentals.

25/04/2017

France

Macron campaign targeted by 'Russian hackers'

French presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron was the victim of a cyber attack, say experts

25/04/2017

France

France divided in two

France is split along both geographical and social lines in its support for Emmanuel Macronand Marine Le Pen.

25/04/2017