An emotional Nicolas Sarkozy dropped out of the primary to be the centre-right Les Republicain party nominee for French president today. Francois Fillon and Alain Juppe progress through to the next round in the race to decide who will likely
Right-wing French presidential hopefuls faced off Thursday over the repercussions of Donald Trump’s election in the last debate ahead of the first round of their US-style primary at the weekend.
Nearly 3,000 Parisians yesterday marched to protest the French government’s plans to rehouse migrants squatting in Calais to a chic suburb of the capital.
Local outrage ensued after a water park near Marseille, France, announced a Muslim-only event for Muslim women to wear their Islamic-inspired “burkini” full-body bathing suits.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called on the government to be “ruthless” following the brutal murder of a priest in Normandy by jihadists, stating that France is “at war”, and that there is no choice but for her to “lead and win”. However, the government have not offered any new measures to deal with terrorism.
Marine Le Pen and her Front National (FN) party are together riding a cresting wave of support in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks. Latest polling shows the FN is on course to govern two – and possibly three – French
