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Jean-Pierre Rivère is stepping down as president of Nice after 14 years leading the French club. Nice announced Friday that current CEO Fabrice Bocquet will take over on August 20.
Australians live in the world, and it’s time our conception of the nation came to reflect that — this means overcoming our ...
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the rabble-rousing far-right leader who died on Tuesday aged 96, was a political outcast on April 21, 2002, when he stormed into the second round of France’s presidential ...
French Far-Right Firebrand Jean-Marie Le Pen Dies at 96 The founder of France's National Rally party, and father of Marine Le Pen, pioneered Trump-style populist, anti-immigrant politics.
PARIS — It’s been years since either Bernard Cazeneuve, Dominique de Villepin, Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Lionel Jospin held the office of prime minister in France, but taxpayers are still spending more ...
France's modern Republic has experienced three cohabitations, the last one under conservative President Jacques Chirac, with Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, from 1997 to 2002.
France's left-wing New Popular Front (NFP), a hastily assembled alliance, has emerged as the leading bloc in the next parliament - but without a working majority.
Bloomberg News analysis reveals that 83% of France’s municipalities increased support two fold for the National Rally and allies since 2017.
France most recently had such a government – known as “cohabitation” - when right-wing President Jacques Chirac called snap polls and was forced to appoint a socialist, Lionel Jospin, as ...
Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) party led the first round of France’s parliamentary elections on Sunday, taking it closer to the gates of power than ever before.
But Jospin still managed to introduce various laws the presidential camp opposed such as the 35-hour working week, universal healthcare, and civil partnership for same-sex couples.