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The announcement by the head of the Republicans was a historic break with his party's policy as dismay spread over a snap election. The head of France's conservative party on [...]

Byline: Roger Cohen Charismatic and clean cut, shorn of the Le Pen name, the young National Rally leader took his party to its blockbuster showing in European elections on Sunday. [...]

The president has challenged voters to test the sincerity of their support for the far right in European elections. Were the French letting off steam, or did they really mean [...]

The president’s decision, on the eve of the summer Olympic Games that begin in Paris in July, ushered in a period of deep political uncertainty in France. President Emmanuel Macron [...]

The friendship between France and the U.S. endures. But tensions have mounted over the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, and how Europe can step out of America's shadow. In the [...]

Charismatic and clean cut, shorn of the Le Pen name, the young National Rally leader seems poised to take his party to its best showing ever in European elections on [...]

The friendship between France and the U.S. endures. But tensions have mounted over the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, and how Europe can step out of America’s shadow. In the [...]

D-Day at 80 They were ordinary. The young men from afar who clambered ashore on June 6, 1944, into a hail of Nazi gunfire from the Normandy bluffs did not [...]

On April 26, 2024, almost a year after issuing a notice of proposed rulemaking to modify the Privacy Rule, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for [...]

The environment will come first as France tries to revitalize the global image of its cuisine. There will be no French fries for the 15,000 athletes at the Olympic Games [...]

Not on its own, in all likelihood. But it reflects a growing, global exasperation with Israel that might eventually lend momentum to a two-state solution. The decision by https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/world/middleeast/spain-norway-ireland-palestinian-statehood-israel.html to [...]

Byline: Roger Cohen Political violence and polarization stalk Europe today, with ominous echoes of the past. Dmitri A. Medvedev, the former Russian president and regular forecaster of a third World [...]

Political violence and polarization stalk Europe today, with ominous echoes of the past. Dmitri A. Medvedev, the former Russian president and regular forecaster of a third World War, had no [...]

The ruthless assault that freed a prisoner and set off a manhunt has turned attention to a multibillion-dollar drug trade fueling gang warfare. If France is a country of illusions [...]

The ruthless assault that freed a prisoner and set off a manhunt has turned attention to a multibillion-dollar drug trade fueling gang warfare. If France is a country of illusions [...]

The French authorities said that armed assailants had attacked a prison convoy, killed two guards and freed an inmate. The black Peugeot 5008 rammed the police van carrying a prisoner [...]

Byline: Roger Cohen Jordan Bardella, 28, is the new face of the far right in France. Measured, clean-cut and raised in the hardscrabble northern suburbs of Paris, he laces his [...]

The flame will be carried on a 79-day journey across France and its territories, culminating in Paris with the start of the Olympic Games on July 26. Before a crowd [...]

The flame will be carried on a 79-day journey across France and its territories, culminating in Paris with the start of the Olympic Games on July 26. Before a crowd [...]

The French president took Xi Jinping to his childhood haunts high in the Pyrenees, hoping to forge a bond. If only the weather would have cooperated. The French president, Emmanuel [...]

Talks in Paris with President Macron produced a call for an ''Olympics truce'' this summer but no concrete progress on Beijing putting pressure on Russia. President Xi Jinping of China, [...]

Jordan Bardella, 28, is the new face of the far right in France. Measured, clean-cut and raised in the hardscrabble northern suburbs of Paris, he laces his speeches with references [...]

Byline: Roger Cohen and Chris Buckley The Chinese leader has carefully chosen three countries - France, Serbia and Hungary - that to varying degrees embrace Beijing's push for a new [...]

Ursula Von der Leyen, the European Commission president, pushed Beijing to help rein in Russia’s war in Ukraine after meeting with the Chinese and French leaders in Paris. Ursula von [...]

The Chinese leader has carefully chosen three countries -- France, Serbia and Hungary -- that to varying degrees embrace Beijing's push for a new global order. On his first visit [...]

In a major speech, France's president returned to a familiar theme, warning that ''Our Europe is mortal'' if it does not become more self-sufficient. Challenged by the extreme right and [...]

In a major speech, France’s president returned to a familiar theme, warning that “Our Europe is mortal” if it does not become more self-sufficient. Challenged by the extreme right and [...]

A new Apple TV+ series dramatizes the years Benjamin Franklin spent in France, leveraging diplomacy and guile to secure his nascent country's future. Sailing across the Atlantic to France in [...]

Byline: Roger Cohen and Ivor Prickett Gazing out from his 265-acre farm to the silhouetted Jura mountains in the distance, Jean-Michel Sibelle expounded on the intricate secrets of soil, climate [...]

Gazing out from his 265-acre farm to the silhouetted Jura mountains in the distance, Jean-Michel Sibelle expounded on the intricate secrets of soil, climate and breeding that have made his [...]

Gazing out from his 265-acre farm to the silhouetted Jura mountains in the distance, Jean-Michel Sibelle expounded on the intricate secrets of soil, climate and breeding that have made his [...]

Byline: Roger Cohen and Aurelien Breeden In four months, France will host the Paris Olympics, but which France will show up? Torn between tradition and modernity, the country is in [...]

In four months, France will host the Paris Olympics, but which France will show up? Torn between tradition and modernity, the country is in the midst of an identity crisis. [...]

Byline: Steven Erlanger, Roger Cohen and Erika Solomon A fraught relationship has recently turned bitter, with insults and barbs threatening European unity at a critical moment. It was a private [...]

The leaders of France and Germany tried to heal an increasingly public rift over their approach to the war, holding talks alongside Poland’s prime minister on support for Kyiv. Chancellor [...]

A fraught relationship has recently turned bitter, with insults and barbs threatening European unity at a critical moment. It was a private dinner in a Parisian garden on the Boulevard [...]

The French president attempted to forge a united front on a harder line against Russia. But few were persuaded. Attacked at home and abroad for his statement last month that [...]

The French president attempted to forge a united front on a harder line against Russia. But few were persuaded. Attacked at home and abroad for his statement last month that [...]

Byline: Roger Cohen The French president's openness to Western troops in Ukraine signaled a quest for military resolve. But some allies felt blindsided. With his jolting unexpected statement that sending [...]

On March 18, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (HHS-OCR) revised its controversial December 2022 bulletin (the December 2022 Bulletin) regarding the use [...]

The French president's openness to Western troops in Ukraine signaled a quest for military resolve. But some allies felt blindsided. With his jolting unexpected statement that sending Western troops to [...]

Byline: Roger Cohen The new prime minister wants to succeed President Macron. But first he must see off the far right and define himself before a restive public. Gabriel Attal, [...]

The new prime minister wants to succeed President Macron. But first he must see off the far right and define himself before a restive public. Gabriel Attal, 34, is a [...]

Robert Badinter, the former minister who abolished the death penalty, was honored in Paris after his death on Friday, but members of the far left and right were told they [...]

Former President Nicolas Sarkozy of France saw an appeals court uphold his conviction for illegally financing an election campaign, but he received a lighter sentence. A Paris appeals court upheld [...]