What kind of financial regulator will Cyril Roux be?The French official becomes financial regulator in OctoberThu Aug 22 2013 - 01:00
Hollande’s cabinet imagines France in 2025France must “choose, not suffer,” President François Hollande told his cabinet during a seminar on “France in 2025” at the Élysée Palace yesterday.Tue Aug 20 2013 - 01:00
‘Devil’s advocate’ Jacques Vergès dies in ParisFrench Lawyer gained notoriety for his defence of war criminals, dictators and terroristsSat Aug 17 2013 - 01:00
France prefers a strange class of socialistPopular interior minister Manuel Valls is somewhere to the right of SarkozyFri Aug 16 2013 - 01:03
Increasing numbers of French young people are emigratingRise in emigration sparks debateFri Aug 09 2013 - 01:00
French judges claim Dominique Strauss-Kahn was ‘king of the party’ at orgiesFormer head of the IMF knew women who attended sex parties were prostitutes, judges sayThu Aug 08 2013 - 01:00
Leaked report revives divisive French debate about headscarvesWearing of Islamic headscarves, yarmulkes and large crosses banned in public schools in 2004Wed Aug 07 2013 - 01:00
Spanish paedophile erroneously pardoned by Moroccan king is rearrestedDaniel Galvan, sentenced to 30 years for rape of 11 childrenTue Aug 06 2013 - 01:00
‘Young people don’t read paper’Newspaper vendors in Paris make so little money they are working for loveSat Aug 03 2013 - 01:00
Our Gallic cousins are melancholy, morose and depressed. Vive la différence!Would Beckett have spent his life in France if the country had not mirrored his pessimism?Fri Aug 02 2013 - 01:00
Strauss-Kahn to stand trial for ‘aggravated pimping’Former IMF chief had been under investigation over Lille sex partiesSat Jul 27 2013 - 01:31
Polanski’s victim tells her side of storySamantha Geimer’s autobiography to be published in SeptemberSat Jul 27 2013 - 01:03
Mali heads into crucial presidential electionLegitimate poll would free up €3.25bn in aid promised at donor conferenceFri Jul 26 2013 - 01:23
UMP members walk out of fraud Cahuzac inquiryParliamentary commission in crisis after walk-outFri Jul 26 2013 - 01:00
Paris train crash investigation under scrutiny in wake of Santiago derailmentIncident a fortnight ago killed two passengers and four people on platformFri Jul 26 2013 - 01:00
French deputy condemned for for saying ‘Hitler didn’t kill enough’ TravellersMayor faces expulsion from centre-right UDI partyWed Jul 24 2013 - 01:00
Cahuzac’s memory fails him at tax fraud inquiryCommission investigates Hollande administration’s handling of former budget minister’s tax evasionWed Jul 24 2013 - 01:00
Streamlining the system? If only it were that simpleParis letter: to an observer who long felt she was watching bureaucracy sap the lifeblood of France, the ‘choc de simplification’ looks like the best thing goingMon Jul 22 2013 - 01:00
Francophile Bono receives honour from a grateful nationU2 singer made commandeur de l’ordre des arts et des lettres in ParisWed Jul 17 2013 - 01:00
James Joyce’s historic sojourn in Nice recalledBono and Guggi among guests at unveiling of plaqueTue Jul 16 2013 - 01:00
Bastille Day festivities fall flat as Hollande itemises work donePresident promises to fight French pessimismMon Jul 15 2013 - 00:00
At least six dead and 22 injured after train derails near ParisRailway cars fell on their sides, crushing waiting passengers on the platformSat Jul 13 2013 - 01:00
Yasmina Reza: Drama queenShe is the most successful French playwright of her generation and her work is performed around the world. Lara Marlowe talks to Yasmina Reza, author of ‘Art’ and ‘Carnage’, about writing, working with James Gandolfini, and a rumoured liaison with disgraced IMF chief Dominique Strauss-KahnSat Jul 13 2013 - 01:00
French nobles give Bastille Day right royal ‘non’France’s 6,000 aristocrats struggle to slow the erosion of their traditionsSat Jul 13 2013 - 01:00
There’s nothing very convincing about Sarkozy’s retirementFormer French president says again he might have to come back, ‘if I am needed, out of duty’Fri Jul 12 2013 - 06:00
French judges order seizure of substantial Tapie assetsLagarde's status may change from ‘assisted witness’ to being placed under investigationThu Jul 11 2013 - 02:00
Fire causes ‘irreversible’ damage to historic Parisian mansionBlaze destroyed the 17th century Hotel Lambert on the Île Saint-Louis, half a kilometre from Notre Dame cathedralThu Jul 11 2013 - 01:00
Rogue trader Kerviel fails in bid for SocGen sacking inquiryJérôme Kerviel is free pending a second appeal against his 2010 convictionFri Jul 05 2013 - 01:01
French ex-con still ‘coming up from ashes’ at 70Paris letter: Businessman Bernard Tapie says the system is out to humiliate himWed Jul 03 2013 - 01:00
Marine Le Pen loses immunity over Muslim ‘occupation’ commentsNational Front leader can now be prosecuted in France for inciting hatredWed Jul 03 2013 - 01:00
France struggles to take hordes of jobless youth under bloated administrative wing of the stateSchemes to target socially challenged areas with jobs seem to be having limited successMon Jul 01 2013 - 00:00
Disgraced former French minister protects socialist government in hearingJérôme Cahuzac faces commission of inquiry over tax fraud chargesThu Jun 27 2013 - 01:00
Row between Barroso and Paris deterioratesFrance will not take orders from Brussels, says French prime minister Jean-Marc AyraultTue Jun 25 2013 - 22:27
French confirm to Creighton support for EU retroactive recapitalisation of banks‘It is important that agreement to break link between sovereign and bank debt be implemented,’ says minister of stateTue Jun 25 2013 - 01:01
Creighton says she would be “very disappointed” if Fine Gael moves against those not supporting abortion billMinister of State says she still has deep reservations about suicide clauseTue Jun 25 2013 - 01:00
Depardieu fined €4,000 and banned from driving for six months for drink drivingFrench actor found to be three times over legal limit when he fell off scooter last NovemberSat Jun 22 2013 - 01:00
Meeting of two mistressesManet’s Olympia and Titian’s Venus of Urbino, two paintings depicting courtesans believed to have had affairs with the artists, are finally hanging side by sideSat Jun 22 2013 - 01:00
Hollande’s promise on parliamentary privilege proves short-livedLaw debated this week says constituents will be able to look at deputy or senator’s wealth declaration, but publishing information will be an offenceFri Jun 21 2013 - 01:00
Algeria urged to reveal truth of decapitated monks’ deathsFamilies want François Hollande to push Algiers to co-operate over 1996 killingsThu Jun 20 2013 - 01:00
Hollande faces wrath of unions at social conferenceMeeting of ministers, business and trade unions will confront thorny issues of pensions, unemployment and the status of France’s civil serviceThu Jun 20 2013 - 01:00
Trial of Ribéry and Benzema for sex with underage prostitute postponedJudge refers case to the court of cassation, which will take it up in January 2014Wed Jun 19 2013 - 01:00
French officials face investigation into €403m Tapie paymentMagistrates say settlment the result of a ‘sham arbitration’Tue Jun 18 2013 - 06:00
Hollade and Barroso clash over trade dealRow between French PM and Commission President as G8 summit beginsTue Jun 18 2013 - 01:00
Research clinician prized for his efforts in scientific discoveryAn Irish medic has helped revolutionise how we treat heart attacks with his research on aspirinTue Jun 18 2013 - 01:00
Otherworldly hush descends for Seamus Heaney’s readings in ParisIrish poet’s 90-minute performance the highlight of month-long Marché de la Poésie festivalFri Jun 14 2013 - 01:00
France eager to have corporation tax discussed at Lough Erne summitHollande will use summit to press for new peace talks on SyriaThu Jun 13 2013 - 01:00
Samantha Power’s remarks on Israel may complicate confirmation as UN envoyIreland has secured another friend in the high echelons of the US administrationFri Jun 07 2013 - 01:00
The calculated rise of madame mayorThe next mayor of Paris will be a woman and the ‘bling-bling, divisive’ Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet is in pole positionFri Jun 07 2013 - 01:00
Hollande oscillates between structural reform and the rhetoric of the French social modelThe debate over whether France’s president and his socialist party are social democrats exemplifies the confusion surrounding his government’s policySat Jun 01 2013 - 01:00
