France was poised for major change Sunday night when Socialist candidate François Hollande looked set to beat conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in runoff balloting for France’s presidency.

(Bloomberg) -- President Emmanuel Macron will meet with Bernard Cazeneuve, a former Socialist Party official and ex-premier, on Monday as he heads toward naming France’s next prime minister. He also ...

The global crisis of capitalism and its ecological dimension are provoking a major political crisis. In the countries of the Global North, and in France in particular, the bourgeoisie is seeking to ...

France's new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his government resigned on Monday, hours after Lecornu announced his cabinet line-up, making it the shortest-lived administration in modern French ...

PARIS (AP) — Nine competitors are bidding to be the Socialist Party's candidate in next year's French presidential election. Among those who declared their candidacy by Thursday's deadline are former ...

Some of France's European partners have been watching the political turmoil closely as the country struggles to rein in a budget deficit which has become the largest in the euro zone. View on euronews ...

POITIERS, FRANCE — Socialist Segolene Royal began her campaign to become France's first woman president in this bucolic region of Cognac vineyards and farm fields, trying out policies like free birth ...

VALENCIENNES, France (Reuters) - In France's former mining heartland, promises by the Communist Party's first presidential candidate in 15 years to raise the minimum wage, lower the retirement age and ...