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Europeans were reeling Sunday from President Trump’s announcement that eight countries will face a 10% tariff for opposing American control of Greenland. The responses to Mr. Trump’s decision…
Read more Europeans reeling as Trump threatens tariffs on 8 countries over Greenland disputePARIS (AP) — The date was May 7, 2017. Addressing cheering supporters, the newly elected leader of France, Emmanuel Macron, made a promise that now, in his waning…
Read more AP mapping shows France’s poorest regions backing Le Pen’s party as support for Macron wanesPARIS—French courts have delivered one shock ruling after another this year, testing the balance of power between the country’s fiercely independent judiciary and its political leadership. In March,…
Read more With Sarkozy in Prison, France Asks: Has the Judiciary Gone Too Far?PARIS—President Emmanuel Macron is moving to name a new prime minister rather than calling snap elections, an approach that buys time for the country’s political establishment to pull…
Read more France’s Macron to Name New PM, Shelving Threat of Snap ElectionsFrance’s government collapsed Monday after the country’s Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu tendered his resignation less than a day after appointing his cabinet. The resignation of the country’s second-highest-ranking…
Read more France’s prime minister resigns, again, sparking call from far-right for new national elections(CNN) — A left-wing alliance has won the most seats in the French parliament after tactical voting in Sunday’s second round election thwarted Marine Le Pen’s far-right party, but France will be…
Read more Left-wing surge foils far right but French election ends in deadlockFrance is seeing high turnout Sunday in pivotal runoff elections that could hand a historic victory to Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally and its nationalistic, anti-immigrant vision…
Read more The Latest | France votes in pivotal runoff elections that could propel the far right to powerThe French government rushed to appease the country’s farmers on Sunday in a last-ditch bid to prevent a major blockade of the French capital this week. But agriculture…
Read more French farmers plan ‘siege’ of Paris despite government concessionsPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron has propelled rising star Gabriel Attal center stage in a high-risk…
Read more Macron goes all in with high-stakes reshuffle to combat far rightPARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron hit back Wednesday against speculation he has become a lame-duck president paving the way for the far right to come to power,…
Read more I’m no lame duck, Macron says, vowing to stop Le Pen’s risePress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BRUSSELS — Western leaders are grappling with how to handle two era-defining wars in the Middle East…
Read more Migration is derailing leaders from Biden to Macron. Who’s next?Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. THE HAGUE — One line in Geert Wilders’ inflammatory pitch to Dutch voters will haunt Brussels more…
Read more Geert Wilders is the EU’s worst nightmarePress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BERLIN — The political maneuver shaking Germany’s postwar democratic order involves a piece of legislation that is…
Read more Germany’s far-right ‘firewall’ cracksPARIS (AP) — Widespread riots in France sparked by the police killing of a teenager with North African roots have revealed the depth of discontent roiling poor neighborhoods…
Read more France’s anti-immigration far right gets boost from riots over police killing of teenFrench President Emmanuel Macron. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images President Emmanuel Macron‘s controversial pension overhaul, pushed through by overriding the country’s parliament, could eventually erase what…
Read more Macron bypassed parliament and angered French citizens. Setting the far-right up for a bouncePress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Anyone looking at France right now could be forgiven for thinking the country was on the edge…
Read more After Macron, le délugeCNN — A farmers’ protest party in the Netherlands has caused a shock after winning provincial elections this week just four years after their founding. Could their rise…
Read more Trump and Le Pen backed these Dutch farmers — now they’ve sprung an election shock | CNNBRUSSELS — The EU was “scared” of Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon during the European parliamentary election in 2019 — but those fears are gone ahead…
Read more EU to Steve Bannon: You don’t scare us … anymorePress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. For years, they’ve locked horns with EU leaders who accuse them of flouting the rule of law,…
Read more European far-right cheers over Qatar corruption scandalPARIS — European lawmaker Jordan Bardella replaced his mentor Marine Le Pen on Saturday at the helm of France’s leading far-right party, pledging to protect French civilization from…
Read more French far-right party elects new leader to replace Le Pen
