A senior official in the Socialist-run government of Paris has blamed the United States and its abundance of air conditioners for the heat wave that has descended upon the French capital and throughout Western Europe.
The recently elected Socialist Party Mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, is already besieged by scandal as hundreds of families have urged his office to levy punishments against those involved in the mass sexual abuse of children in public after-school programmes.
The populist National Rally claimed a historic “breakthrough” for the party on Sunday’s French municipal elections, which saw major establishment figures fall by the wayside and the craven political partnerships made with the far-left prove toxic to voters.
Craven political manoeuvring has broken out across France as elected positions for around 35,000 municipalities are up for grabs, with the first round of voting breaking the veneer of the establishment left’s feigned principles, which instantly broke down and and its candidates began partnering with Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s radicals.
The majority of French voters believe that the far-left La France Insoumise party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon have poorly handled the alleged Antifa killing of a conservative student in Lyon and has been too “complacent” in the face of the violence of the so-called antifacist movement.
France’s former Culture Minister Jack Lang has resigned as head of a Paris cultural center over alleged past financial links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that prompted a tax investigation.
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu walked back on the central promise of his government on Monday evening by announcing that he would invoke his anti-democratic Article 49.3 emergency powers to pass a leftist-inspired budget without a vote from the National Assembly.
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.
Marine Le Pen and her National Rally deputy Jordan Bardella have “firmly established dominance” over the field of prospective candidates to replace French President Emmanuel Macron, according to the latest survey from Ifop.
Yet another French government appears on the brink of falling as a go-for-broke gambit from Prime Minister François Bayrou to call for a vote of confidence ahead of the budget fight appears set for failure as the opposition right and left look to vote against the government.
Prime Minister François Bayrou’s government is facing the prospect of being toppled like its predecessor, with the Socialist Party vowing to launch a motion of no confidence after negotiations broke down over President Macron’s controversial pension reforms.
French President Emmanuel Macron is a “madman”, a senior figure within the French parliament has now declared.
A crowd of around 200 illegal migrants from Africa stormed Alfortville town hall on Tuesday morning, demanding that the government relax criteria for regularisation and give them residence papers.
Former special advisor to France’s interior ministry Hugues Moutouh has accused the left wing political establishment of complicity in the violence raging through the country’s migrant-dominated suburbs.
(Reuters) French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday he would not seek a second term in office in the presidential election in 2017, an unprecedented move that leaves the way open for other left-wing candidates. It is the first time
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.
Jean-Jacques Lacoste is suing residents of the town he once served as mayor for “incitement to racial hatred” after spotting posters complaining that the resettlement of migrants squatting in Calais to the commune will bring crime and antisocial behaviour. The
Two men who attacked a young couple for eating a pizza topped with ham have been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
France’s National Front pulled off a historic win on Sunday, topping the vote in the first round of regional elections, in a breakthrough that shakes up the country’s political landscape before 2017 presidential elections. Boosted by fears over the Islamic
