Bruno Retailleau

National Rally leader Marine Le Pen and her deputy Jordan Bardella would handily win the first round of next year’s presidential election; however, a top Macronist has emerged as a potential leading opponent in the second round, a poll taken in the wake of the municipal elections found.

It will be ‘part deux’ for Sébastien Lecornu as President Emmanuel Macron reappointed him as prime minister on Friday evening just days after he sensationally resigned and declared that his mission was “over” after less than a month in office.

French National Rally leader Marine Le Pen has vowed to censure any government put forward by President Emmanuel Macron, arguing that the only way out of the ongoing political crisis would be to hold elections.

Ex-French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, a longtime ally of President Emmanuel Macron, has called for his former boss to hold early presidential elections to end the political crisis facing the country.

Just hours after forming his government, new French PM Lecornu submitted his resignation, becoming the shortest-lived leader ever.

Several French mayors defied government orders and flew Palestinian flags on town halls, as France prepares to formally recognize a Palestinian state.

In its ongoing battle to root out the Muslim Brotherhood, the French Ministry of the Interior on Wednesday banned the European Institute of Human Sciences, a training centre for Imams, for promoting “radical Islam” and “armed jihad”.

A German-Franco-led summit on Friday saw six nations demand that the European Union as a whole enact stricter regulations on asylum and step up border controls, in an apparent departure from the open borders orthodoxy that has dominated over the past decade.

The French government will use anti-terror style measures to target and freeze the financial assets of groups engaging in Islamist infiltration in the wake of a bombshell report alleging that the Muslim Brotherhood has waged a decades-long campaign to enter public and private institutions in France and across Europe.

French President Emmanuel Macron warned that regime change in Iran could lead to “chaos”, as officials in France and Germany expressed concerns over potential Tehran-linked terror attacks in Europe amid the Middle East conflict.

Clashes with police, shootings, and other violence amongst varying groups of prospective illegal migrants have broken out in recent days at camps in northern France as the leaders of both London and Paris have admitted the Channel crisis is “deteriorating”.

French society is devolving into a “barbarian factory”, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau warned after the fatal stabbing of a female education assistant outside of a school in Nogent on Tuesday.

France saw a record number of arrests following a major sporting event after deadly scenes broke out following Paris Saint-Germain’s victory over Inter Milan in the Champions League final on Saturday.

Hundreds have been arrested after Paris broke out into chaotic scenes on Saturday evening after the PSG soccer team won the UEFA Champions League.

French President Emmanuel Macron has attempted to downplay the significance of the explosive report from his own government detailing the infiltration of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood in France and throughout Europe, warning against the spread of so-called conspiracy theories.

An explosive report from the French government has alleged that the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood network has embarked upon a decades-long effort to forge a fifth column in France and across Europe, through infiltrating government institutions and radicalising Muslim communities, while veiling their true intentions with supposedly noble causes such as fighting “Islamophobia” all in the service of subverting the West and Sharia taking over.

French President Emmanuel Macron shot down calls for a national referendum on the mass migration policies imposed on France, despite his Minister of Interior backing a public vote on the issue.

National Rally leaders Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella lead the field of prospective candidates to replace French President Emmanuel Macron when he is termed out in 2027.

The French government told parliamentarians this week that it will take steps to ban one of the leading far-left Antifa groups in the country amid allegations of using violence against political opponents.

French authorities on Sunday held three Algerians suspected of inciting violence in TikTok videos, with at least two of them facing terror-related charges.

The fourth government of the year was unveiled by recently-installed French Prime François Bayrou on Monday evening, in what appears to be a doubling down on neo-liberal Macronism, with previously discarded allies of the president returning to power.

Urban pacification squads will be deployed to a drug gang-plagued French suburb Friday night after a brawl involving hundereds but no arrests.

The Moroccan migrant rapist suspected of killing a 19-year-old French girl in an affluent neighbourhood of Paris in September will finally be extradited back to France after fleeing to Switzerland.