Emmanuel Macron

A low turnout and a more nuanced nationwide picture mean the political outlook remains uncertain.

Macron spoke just a day after the Green party surged across the country in Sunday's municipal election.

The two heads of state held a two hour video conference where they notably spoke about the crisis in Libya.

Amid a PPE shortage at the height of France's COVID-19 crisis, hundreds of companies switched their production to make face masks. That has now left the country with a significant surplus.

The motion did not pass amid fears it would jeopardise relations with France, Tunisia's most important commercial partner.

The investigation follows dozen of complaints over failures to implement COVID-19 safety measures.

Euronews' political editor Darren McCaffrey looks at the splits over the EU's coronavirus recovery plan.

Paschal Donohue says there would be “great difficulty” for the EU if “existing divergences” among member states are “exacerbated” by the impact of COVID-19.

Seven MPs from his LREM party defected to create a new parliamentary group they said would be "independent" and sit "neither in the majority nor in the opposition".

New Caledonia's vote on splitting from Paris, the second such poll in as many years, was scheduled for September 6.

She has denied the allegations and said she would file a defamation claim.

The law allows for fines of up to €1.25 million but critics say it would curtail the democratic right to freedom of expression.

The Institut Pasteur estimated that 3.7 million people — 5.7% of the population — will have been infected with COVID-19 by May 11 but that 70% is needed for herd immunity.

New figures show there have been nearly 1,300 extra deaths in Wuhan than previously reported.

The French President said there was "no choice" but for the bloc to set up a fund that "could issue common debt with a common guarantee"; putting himself in opposition with Berlin.

The French leader said the controversial dual therapy championed by Didier Raoult involving anti-malaria drugs should be vigorously tested as soon as possible.

The French president has announced a month-long extension to a country-wide lockdown which began on March 17.

Raoult, a prominent virologist, has caused controversy within the French scientific community for insisting the anti-malaria drug chloroquine can beat the novel coronavirus.

Each carriage will have four patients and a team of six health workers.

The role of the European institutions has been seriously questioned during the past two weeks. As a passionate European, this hurts to see. Despite the efforts of the European Commission to help and to intervene in the crisis, member states have decided rather to take a national approach.