Campaigning kicked off on Monday for French parliamentary elections which newly-elected President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party must win, if he is to deliver on his election promises.
President Francois Hollande has named 38-year-old technocrat Fleur Pellerin as France's first South Korean-born minister, in charge of small and medium-sized businesses and the digital economy.
François Hollande has been elected president of France with 51.9 per cent of the votes, according to exit polls, the first Socialist to hold the post since François Mitterrand in the ...
Socialist candidate François Hollande used the occasion of International Workers Day on Tuesday 1 May to praise the trade union movement and celebrate his Socialist party’s record on ...
The shooting of a serial offender by a policeman near Paris on Saturday has become a presidential campaign issue after President Sarkozy called for a change in the law to allow the presumption of ...
As campaigning continues ahead of the 6 May run-off for French president both candidates set out on Monday to court the more than six million people who voted for the far-right Front National ...