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Ikea waded into the fray of the political firestorm in France, offering anti-Macron protesters deals on ‘noisy’ pots and pans.

French President Emmanuel Macron is less popular than ever before with the general public, polling has revealed.

Police have confiscated saucepans from townspeople demonstrating against French President Emmanuel Macron.

Emmanuel Macron was greeted with the sounds of pots and pans as people protested his first public outing since signing his pension reform.

Anti-Macron activists were arrested in Marseille after an explosion was set off outside a police station, injuring one officer.

Marine Le Pen said President Macron is a “pyromaniac” who has set fire to French democracy after he signed his pension reforms into law.

French President Emmanuel Macron was heckled over his inability to govern his own country during an address at The Hague on Tuesday.

Over four in ten people in the lowest income bracket in France are cutting meals as food inflation increased by 15 per cent in the past year.

Confidence in French President Macron has fallen to its lowest level since the 2018 Yellow Vest protests, as Marine Le Pen’s right-wing populists surge.

A woman has been arrested for allegedly comparing French President Emmanuel Macron to “trash” on social media amid nationwide protests.

A viral video has shown French diners sipping wine with a burning pile of garbage set ablaze by rioters in the background.

French President Emmanuel Macron said the pension bill he pushed through without a vote needs to be implemented by the “end of the year”.

Motions of no-confidence were filed on Friday after President Emmanuel Macron’s government used a loophole to try to pass its pension reform.

The French government was thrown into chaos after it used a constitutional loophole to pass a rise to the retirement age without a vote.

Emmanuel Macron was under fire on Friday for handing billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos the country’s highest order of merit.

A group of MPs in French President Emmanuel Macron’s party will propose a bill to inscribe abortion rights into the country’s constitution.

Marine Le Pen’s National Rally won a historic number of seats on Sunday as President Macron failed to maintain his parliamentary majority.

Emmanuel Macron’s alliance got the most seats in the final round of the parliamentary election, but it lost its majority, projections show.

French voters are going to the polls in the final round of key parliamentary elections for President Emmanuel Macron.

France’s Greens and the party of far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon reached an agreement Monday to join forces against President Macron.

French President Emmanuel Macron was pelted with a flurry of tomatoes during his first public appearance since winning re-election on Sunday.

The EU’s fraud agency has reportedly accused French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen of misusing public funds in the EU Parliament.

Disgraced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has become the latest establishment figure to back Emmanuel Macron in his re-election bid.

Supporters of populist Eric Zemmour were doused with gasoline in the latest attack of the hotly contested French presidential election.

Launched her bid for the French presidency, Marine Le Pen promised to take on the “Talibanised” areas of France.

The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, has announced he will run for the French presidency, vowing to take a harder line on immigration than incumbent Emmanuel Macron.

A French socialist mayor has been urged to resign after she was caught breaking the national coronavirus lockdown curfew to visit a Ramadan market.

Former French minister Arnaud Montebourg has claimed that populist party leader Marine Le Pen could win next year’s presidential elections.

Anti-Macron firefighters violently clashed with police in Paris, demanding better pay, staff increases and protection from violent attacks. 

In an escalation of protests against pension reforms by President Macron, union workers cut power to the world’s largest wholesale market.

A senior official in the French Ministry of Culture has been charged with drugging over 200 women with diuretics so that he could take pictures and watch while they urinated.

The approval ratings of Emmanuel Macron continue to be in freefall, according to new polling figures which showed support for the French president has plunged to a new low this month.

Emmanuel Macron is “in panic” over next year’s EU Parliament elections, Marine Le Pen has said, after the President issued an urgent warning against voting for populists.

PARIS (AP) – Candidates running under the banner of France’s President-elect Emmanuel Macron gathered Saturday in Paris for a training workshop ahead of crucial parliamentary elections in June. His Republic on the Move movement announced an initial list of 428

PARIS, France — The founder of France’s far-right National Front party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, has been charged with inciting hatred for alleged anti-Semitic remarks in 2014, his lawyer said Saturday.

Former French leader Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday announced he will seek his party’s nomination to stand in next year’s presidential election.