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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.

PARIS — A suspected arson attack on a French kosher grocery store revived fears over anti-Semitism on Tuesday, three years to the day since an assault on a Jewish supermarket by an Islamist gunman.

Former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has insisted that not only do jihadists act in the name of Islam but said denying terrorists are true Muslims removes the responsibility of other Muslims to act.

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has denounced radical Islam as “a monstrous totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on reason, on civilisation,” after a deadly Kalashnikov attack on police officers in Paris. “Hate preachers must be

Former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls called on Monday for a big turnout in the second round of the Socialist primaries after a first round vote made left-wing rival Benoit Hamon frontrunner to represent the party in this year’s presidential

PARIS (AP) — A quick look at the two candidates advancing to the Jan. 29 runoff of France’s Socialist Party presidential primary, and how it works: ___ BENOIT HAMON, 49 Resume: Former French junior minister, briefly education minister, former Socialist

Former Prime Minister Manuel Valls, long tipped to win the left-wing ticket for France’s presidential election this spring, trailed his rivals after a debate on Sunday where his immigration policies came under fire.

PARIS – Former French prime minister Manuel Valls has lost his lead over leftist opponent Arnaud Montebourg ahead of the Socialist primaries, an Ifop poll, published by the weekly Journal du Dimanche, showed on Sunday. In case of a second-round

French Socialist presidential candidate Manuel Valls sought to re-energise the beleaguered Left on Tuesday, as he set out his programme to clinch his party’s presidential nomination for elections this year.

Two men hoping to clinch the left-wing nomination for France’s presidential race are pursuing a risky strategy: They want to save the much-maligned European Union.

François Hollande denounced populism and nationalism ahead of upcoming French presidential elections, but Marine Le Pen hit back saying after Trump and Brexit, the French share the worldwide “aspiration for independence” in the fight against globalism.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve was appointed as the new prime minister on Tuesday after Manuel Valls resigned to seek the Socialist nomination in the presidential election, the presidency said.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls is expected to announce he is entering the race to be the Socialist candidate for next year’s presidential election, after Francois Hollande said he would not stand, a move that would mean a government reshuffle.

The European Union is in danger of breaking apart unless France and Germany, in particular, work harder to stimulate growth and employment and heed citizens’ concerns, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said in the German capital on Thursday.

The European Union should create an ‘African Erasmus’ student exchange programme as part of reparations for the slave trade, the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has proposed.

Canada’s Liberal Prime Minister has suggested that if the European Union (EU) cannot even do a trade deal with his country then its existence is pointless. Justin Trudeau said that any failure by the bloc to conclude the Comprehensive Economic

French Police unions are furious their Prime Minister has insisted there are no no-go zones in France after a Molotov attack Saturday night left one officer fighting for his life. A group of more than a dozen hooded people swarmed

The number of people given French citizenship this year is likely to soar 45 per cent from 2015’s figure, with the vast majority of “new French” from North Africa. The spike follows a concerted push by the ruling Socialist Party to naturalise 100,000 people a year.

The French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, has sparked controversy for pointing out that an emblem of the French republic, Marianne, is commonly depicted with bare breasts, during a row over whether or not the burkini should be banned.

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.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was booed this morning as he attended a memorial event for the victims of the Bastille Day attack. Mr Valls was attending a minute’s silence in the city of Nice when the large crowd vented

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — France’s prime minister said Tuesday that peace between Israelis and the Palestinians is also important for security in Europe.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his rejection of the French peace initiative but told his French counterpart that he was ready to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the coming days.

An EgyptAir flight carrying 66 people from Paris to Cairo went down into the Mediterranean Sea during the night in a mysterious crash that the Egyptian Prime Minister says may have been due to a terrorist attack.

France’s prime minister called on Thursday for “harsh” punishment for those attacking police officers, a day after protesters torched a police vehicle in central Paris. “The punishment must be harsh, the enquiry has just started, arrests have been made,” Manuel

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has accused the likely Republican nominee Donald Trump of being “little” and a “bad man”, stating that the unpopularity of globalism is a “challenge” to be confronted. In the interview with France’s Public Senat channel,

The French Prime Minister has said the majority of his countrymen consider Islam incompatible with the value of the Republic, before calling for universities to ban Islamic headscarfs. Manuel Valls—a Socialist known for his uncompromising rhetoric on terrorism, law and order—made the

Prime Minister Manuel Valls said extreme forms of Islam were winning the propaganda war for hearts and minds, warning the veil was being used as a political symbol for the “enslavement of women”. Speaking at a roundtable on Islamism in

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s liberal refugee policy, which brought 1.1 million asylum seekers to Germany in 2015, is not sustainable in the long run, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls (above right) warned Friday. “This policy, which is justified temporarily, is

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French Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned on Thursday that it would be a “very bad thing” if Britain left the EU, but warned that British demands cannot be met at any price. A British EU exit “would undoubtedly be a

European countries are stretched to their limits in the refugee crisis and cannot take in any more new arrivals, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was quoted as saying in a German newspaper on Wednesday. Europe is grappling with its worst

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has warned that France is at risk of chemical and biological attacks from terrorists, in an address to the French parliament. “We must not rule anything out,” Mr Valls said. “I say it with all

Europe’s migrant invasion, coupled with strengthening support for Marine Le Pen’s National Front (NF) is causing panic in French political circles. The situation is perceived as so dire that Prime Minister Manuel Valls is considering alliances between the centre right, and even far

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has claimed that all migrants fleeing war or persecution can come to Europe, potentially triggering another huge wave of people attempting to settle across the continent. The claim, which would open Europe up to hundreds

France’s Socialist government faces a parliamentary vote of no confidence Thursday over a key package of reforms designed to energise the country’s sluggish economy. The conservative opposition proposed the motion after Prime Minister Manuel Valls used a rare constitutional device