French president François Hollande doesn't have to look towards the end of his political career with dread. The Elysée Palace confirmed this week he will rake in a monthly pension of €15,000 ($18,000). Although that's a lot less than the initial sum quoted in the media.
A photo of French President Francois Hollande dressed in a traditional fur coat and hat given to him by his counterpart in Kazakhstan sparked a flurry of online jokes on Saturday.
UPDATED:French President Francois Hollande met Russia's Vladimir Putin Saturday, making a surprise stopover in a Moscow airport in an attempt to defuse mounting tensions over Ukraine.
Francois Hollande was dealt another blow Wednesday after an advisor suspected of misusing company assets resigned, the French president's latest close associate to step down under a cloud of controversy.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will attend the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) conference in Cologne and rekindle his partnership with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Sarkozy officially returned to the ring this weekend when he was elected president of the French opposition UMP party. But his comeback has been greeted as warmly by his most bitter opponents as by his own fans.
French President Francois Hollande has called for a united front against the "barbarism" of Boko Haram Islamists following the Nigerian group's latest attack that claimed more than 120 lives.
Five presidential staff are being transferred after photos appeared of French President Francois Hollande with actress Julie Gayet inside the Elysée Palace, officials confirmed Friday.
French President Francois Hollande will on Friday begin a visit to Guinea, making him the first Western leader to travel to a country hit hard by the deadly Ebola virus.
Valérie Trierweiler, François Hollande’s former girlfriend, has been speaking to British media about her life as the unofficial first lady and how it all fell apart. We've gathered together a few of the juiciest extracts from her interviews.
The romance between the France’s president and a younger actress no longer appears to be the country’s worst kept secret with a gossip magazine publishing on Friday the first photos of the lovebirds inside the Elysée Palace. It also claimed Julie Gayet had become a "quasi first lady"
After disappearing from view following the publication of her tell-all memoir in France, Valérie Trierweiler, the former girlfriend of the French President, is making her comeback – but on the other side of the English Channel.
UPDATED: President François Hollande opened a huge, elliptical memorial on Tuesday carrying the names of nearly 600,000 fallen soldiers of all nationalities in an emotional ceremony in northern France marking the end of the devastating First World War.
It was dubbed his last chance to convince the French people he is worthy of being their president, but according to coverage in the French press and the reaction from political analysts on Friday, François Hollande completely missed his opportunity.
The embattled French president Francois Hollande admitted on Thursday he was "hanging on" and had made errors but vowed to go "to the end" to reform the crisis-hit country. He also suggested he may not seek re-election in 2017.
Hollande marks the mid-way point of his presidency on Thursday as his popularity level nosedives once again. But one French political analyst says in future the French people will be grateful to "Mr Normal" for "sacrificing himself" for the economy.
French President François Hollande, whose country will host global climate talks next year, told Canadian lawmakers on Monday that he is counting their oil-exporting country to help in the fight against warming.
France's president François Hollande began the first visit to Canada by a French leader in a quarter of a century on Sunday, when he flew to the country's oil-rich west hoping to drum up trans-Atlantic trade.
French President Francois Hollande hosts leaders from Armenia and Azerbaijan Monday as Europe makes a fresh push to end the festering conflict over Nagorny Karabakh.
Valérie Trierweiler’s tell-all book about her life with French President François Hollande has made her wealthier than her ex. It's perhaps an ironic twist for Trierweiler who claimed in the book that Hollande mocked her for her humble origins.
During a long-awaited press conference on Thursday, French President François Hollande said he has authorised air strikes in Iraq, joining a US-led effort to stop the lightning advance of Islamic State group militants there.
France's embattled government clawed its way to victory in a do-or-die vote of confidence on Tuesday, but it's unclear if this success will serve as a turning point for President François Hollande.
The deeply unpopular government of embattled French President Francois Hollande faces a parliamentary confidence vote on Tuesday, with the country gripped by a crippling political and economic crisis.
French intelligence services assisted Washington in the operation that killed the commander of Somalia's al-Shabaab militant group earlier this month, local media reported Saturday.
