The French Socialist party is part of a broader left-wing coalition that voted to oust Prime Minister Michel Barnier from power following a budget dispute. Bayrou replaced Barnier, becoming France ...

The mood music around French budget talks improved this week as the Socialists softened their positions after new Prime ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right party Front National, has died. He was 96. His family confirmed the news ...

Olivier Faure, the head of the big business Socialist Party, denounced it as an “intolerable attack,” while the right-wing mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard, said “all that is unforgivable and ...

He was known for his fiery anti-immigrant rhetoric that earned him both staunch support and widespread condemnation.

“We remain open to compromise because France needs a budget,” Socialist party leader Olivier Faure said on France Inter on Tuesday. “France needs to be governed and chaos would create an unfavorable ...

The founder of France's National Rally party, and father of Marine Le Pen, pioneered Trump-style populist, anti-immigrant politics.

He got close to winning during the 2002 presidential election when he beat socialist candidate ... exposure in mainstream French media. Le Pen’s party made historical gains in June when it ...