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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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Political world can learn from tech sector

Tech entrepreneur Stéphane Becker says French politicians could learn from his sector's working environment

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Italian business owner wants the right to vote in France

Alessio Batazza has been living in France for 12 years. He has a French wife and children and runs his own business, but he won't have the right to vote in the upcoming elections.

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

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French Senate says deradicalisation programme is failing

France's Islamic deradicalisation programme is designed to stop young, embittered Muslims embarking on violent jihad in Iraq and Syria.

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French Guiana: ministers attempt to resolve unrest

High-ranking French ministers hold talks with protest leaders in French Guiana in an effort to resolve rising tensions across the department.

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Socialist Benoit Hamon appeals to the left

France's Socialist presidential candidate Benoit Hamon vows to fight on after Manuel Valls said he would not vote for him

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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 presidential candidates duel on the economy

French presidential candidates set out economic plans

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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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French presidential candidates outline economic intentions

The economy under the microscope in the French presidential election

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General strike begins in French Guiana

A general strike in protest over high rates of crime and unemployment begins in French Guiana

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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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France: New interior minister takes over from scandal-hit Le Roux

It was all change on Wednesday in one of the top jobs in French government.

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French interior minister resigns over jobs scandal

Bruno Le Roux is facing investigation following allegations he hired his daughters for summer jobs while they were students.

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Macron and Melenchon offer French voters radically different visions of their presidencies

Two outsiders stole the show in Monday's big French presidential election TV debate, but should either of them win will they be able to assemble a government without major party backing?

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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.