PARIS, France --Prime Minister Lionel Jospin has confirmed his presidential candidacy with a pledge to "lead in a different way."Jospin officially said on Wednesday he will challenge incumbent ...

Faced with rising labor discontent, French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin announced a slight boost in public spending next year in an apparent attempt to woo voters ahead of next spring's ...

French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin on Monday averted a possible early cabinet reshuffle in a row with his leftist interior minister over unprecedented autonomous powers granted to Corsica.

France's Socialist Party Prime Minister Lionel Jospin stands on increasingly wobbly legs. Social tensions in France have risen sharply and workers' protests against mass redundancies ...

In office, Mr Jospin abandoned significant chunks of the ideologies he had adopted in his youth, pushing through a series of major privatisations, including those of Air France and France Telecom.

The former Socialist Party prime minister, Lionel Jospin, has resurfaced in the French press. After his ignominious third-place finish behind the conservative president, Jacques Chirac, and the ...

Former French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin says he will not seek the nomination of his Socialist Party to become a candidate in next year's presidential election. Jospin had made a political ...

France goes to the polls Sunday to choose among 16 candidates for president. The two front-runners, conservative incumbent Jacques Chirac and his socialist rival, prime minister Lionel Jospin, are ...