Former French president Francois Hollande said on Wednesday he has not turned his back on politics, after criticizing his successor and former protégé in the Elysee Palace, Emmanuel Macron.
Outgoing French President Francois Hollande made an emotional final foreign trip on Monday to Berlin, ahead of the transfer of power to his successor Emmanuel Macron next week.
French President Francois Hollande warned on Saturday that Britain must pay the price for Brexit as EU leaders met to adopt guidelines for negotiations.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad bears "sole responsibility" for the US strike on a regime airbase, German Chancellor
Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande said in a joint statement on Friday.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad bears "sole responsibility" for the US strike on a regime airbase, French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a joint statement on Friday.
French President Francois Hollande called
on Sunday for efforts to intensify the relationship between Europe and Asia in
the face of resurgent "isolationism".
President Francois Hollande warned would-be successors they should cleave closely to Europe as it was "impossible" that France could contemplate going its own way.
French President Francois Hollande said on Friday he would "clarify positions" with US president-elect Donald Trump during "frank" telephone discussions later in the day.
French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday said the Louvre could house threatened treasures from Iraq, Syria and other war-torn countries at a secure site in northern France.
French President François Hollande may be having difficulties in his own country but he received a generally warm response during his historic two-day visit to Switzerland.
It didn’t last long and was quietly binned, but now the French government suggests it was a case of mission accomplished when it comes to the contentious 75 percent tax rate on millionaires, given that it pulled in around €400 million for the tax man.
As France bids a discreet adieu to its divisive 75 percent "super-tax" on the rich, The Local looks at the impact of a reform some critics declared would turn l’Hexagone into "Cuba without the sun" and propel the country's high earners head to the exits.
Despite France's stagnant economy and record unemployment, its president announced on Tuesday Paris would contribute up to $1 billion to the UN's fund to help poorer nations finance climate change reform.
The far-right National Front is at the "gates of power" in France, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Sunday in a stark assessment of the crisis embroiling the country's centre-left government.
French comic and polemicist Dieudonne is under official investigation after releasing a video mocking the beheading of US journalist James Foley by Islamic extremists. Prosecutors are probing whether the video condones terrorism.
With France plunged into a new political crisis on Monday after the president asked his prime minister to form a new government, The Local took to the streets of Paris to gauge the opinion of the public.
President Francois Hollande on Monday pleaded with the French to be proud of their country in an attempt to boost confidence at a time of enduring gloom over record unemployment and faltering growth.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend ceremonies in France next month marking the 70th anniversary of D-Day, despite
the standoff between Moscow and the West over Ukraine, the ambassador to Paris said on Thursday.
France has "information" but no firm proof that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime is still using chemical weapons, President Francois Hollande said Sunday.
A well-known Al-Qaeda linked website called on "lone wolf" terrorists to assassinate President François Hollande and attack France in revenge for the country’s military interventions in Africa.
President François Hollande pledged in a speech in Nigeria to help fight terrorism and extremism there not simply with 'political' means. He also plans to meet French troops on Friday deployed in the Central African Republic.
Speaking at an Anglo-French summit on Friday, France's president François Hollande said that changes to the European Union treaty sought by Britain are "not a priority" for France.
French President François Hollande can expect a rough ride when he meets Pope Francis on Friday. After legalising gay marriage, softening laws on abortion, vowing to explore a change to euthanasia and allegedly being caught having a fling, Hollande may have some explaining to do.
Revelations about French President François Hollande's alleged affair with French actress Julie Gayet hit the headlines in France on Friday. But who is the woman who "the president loves in secret", as Closer magazine has claimed? Here are ten facts about the actress.
A dramatic day of court battles between controversial French comic Dieudonné and the French government ended with a last gasp victory for the state as the highest court in France upheld a ban on him performing in the city of Nantes on Thursday night.