Swaying through moral crises and social revolutions, Jeffrey M Pilcher’s Hopped Up explains how beer took over the world ...

France’s new prime minister has hinted at plans to water down Emmanuel Macron’s controversial state pension reforms ...

Francois Bayreau, leader of the French centrist party Mouvement democrate, took over as prime minister from the ousted Michel Barnier on Dec ... and the author of the books “Pivotal Poland ...

Since Macron appointed Michel Barnier as prime minister in September ... €4bn for public broadcasting and €700m for media, books and cultural industries. This means the state’s overall ...

Remember 2023 when the French were rioting over plans to raise the pension age from 62 to 64? It seemed like the matter was ...

French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Bayrou as French prime minister this month, after the National Rally and the New Popular Front coalition joined forces to topple Michel Barnier’s government ...

By Loukis Skaliotis Recently the Cyprus Mail was warning that the government budget was pushing the public sector wage bill ...

Matein Khalid “O liberty, what crimes are committed in your name!”. So lamented a Girondist noblewoman as she gazed at the guillotine ...

News that Jean-Marie Le Pen — one of the founders of France’s extreme rightwing political party, the National Front — died on ...

A poll this week in France found that 78 per cent of respondents are in favour of proscribing the wearing of Muslim ...

But Bayrou's administration remains weak, and still faces an uphill battle to pass the 2025 budget that led to the ouster of his predecessor, Michel Barnier. On Thursday, 131 lawmakers voted in ...

If Bayrou were to lose Socialist support, he would find himself in a similar position to predecessor Michel Barnier: reliant on the grace of the far-right National Rally (RN), which could pull its ...