Mr Dominique de Villepin is a traditional right-wing politician. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

PARIS — French Prime Minister François Bayrou will face a no-confidence vote following the apparent collapse of pension ...

PARIS - A U.S. State Department delegation met with senior officials from France's National Rally (RN) in late May, but their ...

Former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin, 71, said Tuesday he was launching a political party two years ahead of ...

De Villepin, famous for his 2003 speech at the United Nations against the Iraq War, has founded La France Humaniste less than ...

Bayrou’s pension “conclave” concluded without an agreement late Monday after four months of closed-door negotiations. That ...

The agenda he is pushing also reflects the worldview Retailleau was born into. Hailing from the deeply Catholic Vendée region in western France, he cut his political teeth in the late 1980s under the ...

Monday, June 9, marked one year since Emmanuel Macron’s surprise move to call snap elections to the National Assembly. It was ...

You see the same pattern over much of the world. In three consecutive presidential elections in the United States. In the latest polls in Britain, where the 2016 Brexit referendum was the first ...

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