Though Macron rejected the idea of calling another election during a visit to Madagascar in April, allies have advised him ...

Last year’s snap polls, announced by Macron on the night of the European elections in June 2024, backfired spectacularly. His ...

Despite a public denial of another election, Macron’s government is in such trouble that the president seems tempted by ...

Hollande repeatedly had said he would seek re-election only if he were able to curb the unemployment rate in France, which for years has hovered around 10 percent.

Francois Hollande has always been an unlikely French president, a guy proud to call himself "normal" and who ended up in the Elysee Palace almost by default.

PARIS– After appearing visibly shattered on Friday evening, France President Francois Hollande delivered a surprisingly bullish speech on Monday before the French congress, vowing to destroy ...

President François Hollande said he wanted to extend the state of emergency in France until the presidential elections in April and May to reduce the threat of ...

The leftist New Popular Front secured the most seats in the National Assembly, delivering a rebuke to France's far-right bloc ...

Francois Hollande takes oath of office as France's new president. He will travel to Germany today to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss a European austerity package which he ...

Hollande, 57, was elected to a five-year term earlier this month after voters ousted incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy after only one term. ... Francois Hollande becomes France's new president .

Prime Minister François Bayrou, who has no majority in Parliament, has lost the Socialists' 'indulgence.' Now, if the ...

Francois Hollande calls Nice truck attack, which killed dozens, an "absolute horror." ... "France has been struck on the day of her national holiday, the 14th of July, ...