Emmanuel Macron

Voters in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis — home to many immigrants and Muslims — fear the surging far right but also resent Macron’s presidency.

“I had a very, very hard time with the announcement” Hidalgo said.

“I think I have experience and qualifications that are beyond [those] of a senior civil servant or average politician,” said Fabrice Leggeri.

Growing grievances over a rural-urban divide help Marine Le Pen’s National Rally make inroads.

A liberal president constantly fighting a far-right prime minister would be a recipe for political catastrophe.

French political circles are openly discussing the possibility of a very Italian option: an emergency government of experts. 

The French president is trying to whip up support for his battered centrists.

In its new electoral program the party refuses “transfers of competence” to the EU in terms of defense and foreign policy.

There is fear that a far-right victory could upend France’s foreign and military policy.

João Cotrim de Figueiredo wants Valérie Hayer’s job.

The selection of a French commissioner could become a contest between President Emmanuel Macron and a possible future far-right government.

“I hope that parties that are not Le Pen — to put it that way — are successful in the election,” Scholz told public broadcaster ARD.

France’s rich-loving president now backs a plan to target them. There’s a high possibility it’s all just a bluff.

France’s National Rally has sought to style itself a defender of women’s rights — partly by attacking its traditional bogeyman: immigration.

Klemen Boštjančič happy to work with National Rally and says U.S. election is “not that important” compared with what’s happening in Europe.

Key figures in the French president’s camp criticized three-time presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s stance on antisemitism and the Israel-Gaza war as having contributed to an environment of insecurity for French Jews.

As elections loom in the U.S., the U.K. and France, the fraught politics of migration are a key issue animating voters on both sides of the Atlantic.

Struggling leaders in America, Britain and France are bombarding their political opponents, some of whom are testing the bounds of the mainstream.

Election fever is gripping both sides of the North Atlantic. As Britain heads into the final weeks of a long election campaign, French voters face a snap …

Global strategic and financial consequences hang on the outcome of the June 30 and July 7 ballot — a complex, two-round process that needs some explanation.

Meloni’s ECR edges out Macron’s Renew, as groups battle to grow.

Macron’s snap election looks likely to herald a fight between Paris and Brussels as the country is one of seven placed in Excessive Deficit Procedure.