UPDATED: Britain and France announced a new "command and control centre" on Thursday to tackle smuggling gangs in Calais, as Europe grapples with its biggest migration crisis since World War II.
A newly enforced police unit in northern France blocked at least 200 people from reaching the Channel Tunnel on Thursday night, as the British government prepares for an emergency meeting on Friday to grapple with the crisis.
Greece on Sunday faced a final EU summit to clinch a deal that would stop Athens crashing out of the euro after divided eurozone ministers halted "very difficult" talks on a new bailout overnight.
With 'Grexit' (Greek exit from the euro) looking increasingly likely on Monday, Germany remained at the centre of efforts to keep it in the single currency. Catch up on a day of dramatic action here.
Italy and France engaged in a war of words on Monday as a standoff over 250 Africans stuck at their common border exposed divisions over Europe's migrant crisis.
A growing number of French people, including the younger generations, are afflicted by loneliness, a new survey revealed on Wednesday. Poor job security, decreasing salaries and the loss of traditional family networks are blamed for the rise.
French president François Hollande welcomes German leader Angela Merkel in Paris on Thursday to to thrash out a plan to create youth jobs. Hollande also plans to take Merkel to the Louvre gallery to see an exhibition that has caused uproar back in Germany.
France's new budget minister Bernard Cazeneuve on Tuesday asked media organisations involved in a global "Offshore Leaks" probe on tax havens to hand over any evidence they have to the judiciary.
Despite a bleak economic outlook, the French have bucked the trend among Western countries and continue to enjoy at least one past-time – making babies. And its all thanks to France's social welfare system, says the author of a new report.
French Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac has resigned after prosecutors announced a probe into a Swiss bank account he allegedly used to hide assets from the tax authorities.
A man identified as the father of a kidnapped French family has spoken on a video obtained by AFP on Monday, which claimed to be a recording made by Nigeria's Islamist rebels Boko Haram.
France's defence minister on Tuesday ruled out entering into negotiations with the abductors of a French family seized in Cameroon, after a video of the hostages appeared on YouTube.
France said on Monday that a video of a kidnapped French family with their abductors, who claimed to be from Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, was a "shocking" display of the kidnappers' cruelty.
France's Foreign Ministry has denied earlier reports from military sources that the French family kidnapped in the north of the country has been released. The ministry warned against "spreading premature information".
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Wednesday that France would not give in to "terrorists" after the kidnapping of seven members of a French family in northern Cameroon. France has told its citizens not to leave the north of the country.
Kidnappers who seized seven members of a French family, including four young children, in Cameroon, have taken them across the border into Nigeria, Cameroon's government has said.
Seven members of one French family, including four children, were kidnapped on Tuesday in northern Cameroon by men suspected of belonging to a terrorist group in Nigeria, French President Francois Hollande said.
President Francois Hollande visits debt-riven Greece on Tuesday to show France's support for a country that appears to have averted a chaotic eurozone exit despite a ruinous six-year recession.
More than six out of ten French people believe their country has gone bust, a survey revealed this week, suggesting the public have little faith their country's ailing economy can get back track any time soon.
France’s finance chief Pierre Moscovici has launched a staunch defense of the country’s economy after a minister in the French government described it as “totally bankrupt”.
The jihadist group believed to be behind the deadly hostage siege in Algeria has issued a series of alarming threats against France, warning that last week’s mass kidnapping at the In Amenas gas plant was “only the beginning.”
France on Friday framed the deadly hostage crisis in Algeria as a wake-up call to the world as it pushed for greater support for a military campaign against Islamists in neighbouring Mali.
A French national said on Friday he hid under his bed for 40 hours during the hostage-taking in Algeria before being rescued by soldiers during an assault that involved heavy exchanges of gunfire.
France and Norway confirmed on Thursday that an operation was underway at the Algerian gas plant where Islamist militants were holding dozens of foreign hostages.
The leaders of France and Spain vowed concerted action on the eurozone as they met on Wednesday amid IMF calls for new measures to control the debt crisis threatening the global economy.
