French Agriculture Minister Stephane Travert has announced that nearly 250,000 insecticide-contaminated eggs have been sold in France since April, but the risk for consumers is "very low".
French Agriculture Minister Stephane Travert said Wednesday he wanted "much more fruitful and rapid exchanges of information" with his EU partners over a tainted egg scandal.
A French millionaire mayor and former MP has publicly apologized after he was caught up in a sex tape scandal with a married woman that he believes cost him re-election to the French parliament.
French Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux resigned on Tuesday after revelations that he hired his two teenage daughters
as parliamentary aides, while denying any wrongdoing.
Former Budget Minister Jérôme Cahuzac's was jailed for three years on Thursday. Here is a look at how he became a political pariah in France after being charged with tax fraud and kicked out of the government in 2013.
Police have raided Volkswagen's French headquarters over an investigation into the massive pollution-cheating scandal that has engulfed the German auto giant, a judicial source said Sunday.
Two French policemen who dropped their trousers at a British war memorial have picked up a €1,000 fine each after being found guilty of indecent exposure. It was disrespectful to the dead, prosecutors said.
A Canadian tourist who claims to have been raped by several Parisian police officers began on Monday the process of confronting the suspects before a judge.
More than 100 police officers are being subjected to DNA tests as part of a probe into the rape of a Canadian tourist at police headquarters in Paris. Two elite French police officers have already been charged with the crime.
Paris’s powerful criminal investigation force, France’s answer to the FBI, is once again embroiled in scandal. After the missing cocaine and the alleged rape of a tourist, the force's chief has been deposed after being charged with leaking secret info.
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.
Two baby girls were mixed up by maternity hospital workers in France and grew up in the wrong families. Twenty years on, the families want €12 million in compensation.
A corruption scandal surrounding former French president Nicolas Sarkozy deepened further on Saturday with fresh leaks of telephone conversations purporting to show he offered to get a judge a plum job in return for favours.
A farmers’ rights group angry over the arrest of some of its members, ‘detained’ one of the French president’s agricultural advisers on Friday, which capped off a terrible week for the historically unpopular leader.
When two French artists were given the job of finding a modern French women to embody the iconic historical figure of Marie Antoinette for a painting, needless to say there were a few eyebrows raised when they opted for notorious former underage escort girl Zahia Dehar.
France’s former budget minister turned political pariah Jérôme Cahuzac, who has been charged with tax fraud, has provoked anger by filing an expenses claim asking parliament to pay for his travel costs, for when he appeared as part of a parliamentary inquiry into his wrongdoing.
Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has taken to the airwaves in the US to vent his "anger" (see video) at being treated like a criminal by the media after rape charges from a New York hotel chambermaid, which were later dropped.
He hasn’t spoken in public in France for two years, but disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is set to play the role of professor on Wednesday, when he delivers a lecture on tax evasion to French Senators, much to the disgust of certain politicians.
Controversial French tycoon Bernard Tapie was taken into custody on Monday by investigators probing an alleged corruption scandal which has embroiled IMF chief and ex-French finance minister Christine Lagarde.
An Italian journalist has claimed that disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her while he was France’s Finance Minister in the late 1990s, it was reported on Wednesday.
Since being caught up in a global sex scandal in 2011 Dominique Strauss-Kahn has tried to lay low but on Monday he appeared to face the media, not in Paris, New York or Lille, but in South Sudan where he opened a bank account.
A left-leaning judges' union has caused outrage among political circles in France after it was revealed they kept a "Wall of Idiots", containing pictures of right-wing politicians as well as journalists, but also the fathers of murdered girls.
French former president Nicolas Sarkozy is to be investigated over allegations that he accepted cash from former Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi to fund his 2007 election campaign.
From a bank account containing just €12.21 to three bikes and a Renault Twingo find out what assets French ministers had to reveal this week. Their testimonies revealed eight of them are millionaires.
