France is gearing up for municipal elections this month, with a presidential candidate testing his popularity and the far right eyeing gains ahead of a crunch vote for the country's top job next ...

The result will come down to complex second-round run-offs in which runners-up can swing the vote by choosing to withdraw, merge or endorse rivals, a process that will play out across France as it ...

The former PM Édouard Philippe is seen as well placed to beat the far right in next year’s French presidential election. But first he has to see off a Communist challenger in Le Havre.

While the Rassemblement National is fielding candidates in 34 municipalities with over 100,000 residents, its highest hopes lie with Perpignan – already under the party's control – Toulon and Nice. It ...

It is stirring tensions inside her party as it edges closer than ever to the presidency. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

President Trump’s war with Iran is exposing how Europe has grown too divided and too dependent to resist an increasingly coercive transatlantic alliance.

Ballots are set to provide clearest indication so far of political temperature in runup to presidential election ...

Government-bond yields rose before tentatively stabilizing Thursday as oil prices and no signs of de-escalation in the Middle East worsened the outlook for inflation and economic growth.

Since reclaiming the prime minister’s job in 2010, Viktor Orban has methodically twisted the country’s media and intellectual life into perfect alignment with his Fidesz party. (The trick has worked ...

France’s coolest city has been shaped by immigration, yet a win for Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in local elections could be seismic – for the whole country, says Marseille-based journalist Mary Fit ...

Speaking at the Nuclear Energy Summit in Paris, von der Leyen said that Europe produced around a third of electricity from nuclear power in 1990 but that has fallen to 15%.

Key lawmakers from the eurosceptic Patriots for Europe (PfE) group have told Euronews they will seek to use a new power over a key climate file which was confirmed in the European Parliament on ...