Tag: France

French far-right leader and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen poses for a selfie as she campaigns Friday, April 22, 2022 in Etaples, northern France. Centrist candidate and French President Emmanuel Macron is facing off against far-right challenger Marine Le Pen in France's April 24 presidential runoff.

Is Marine Le Pen the French Donald Trump?

Abigail Adcox · April 23, 2022 9:00 am

Centrist candidate and French President Emmanuel Macron (left) and far-right contender Marine Le Pen pose before a televised debate in La Plaine-Saint-Denis, France, on Wednesday.

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Why I hope Emmanuel Macron defeats Marine Le Pen on Sunday

Tom Rogan · April 22, 2022 7:49 pm

French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with residents during a campaign stop on April 21 in Saint-Denis, outside Paris, France.

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Two cheers for two parties

Dominic Green · April 21, 2022 11:00 pm

Russia’s Navalny backs Macron in French runoff election

Abigail Adcox · April 21, 2022 3:46 pm

French prosecutors review claims Marine Le Pen misused public funds

Misty Severi · April 18, 2022 3:48 pm

French President Emmanuel Macron, left, listens to French Army General Jean-Louis Georgelin, right, in charge of Notre-Dame Cathedral reconstruction, as he visits the reconstruction site of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, Friday, April 15, 2022 in Paris, to mark three years since the devastating fire.

Macron: ‘Extraordinary progress’ being made on fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral

Julia Johnson · April 15, 2022 8:03 pm

French President Emmanuel Macron holds a book at the beginning of the plenary session of the informal EU summit in Salzburg, Austria, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018.

Macron distances himself from Biden’s ‘genocide’ in Ukraine comments

Mike Brest · April 13, 2022 3:23 pm

If France is to escape its current economic malaise it must confront the source of that problem. Finally, a French president is now doing so.

In France, the center held — just barely

Michael Barone · April 12, 2022 3:42 am

The Russian Embassy is pictured in Paris, Monday, March 26, 2018. France's Foreign Ministry says French authorities have decided to expel four Russian diplomats by next week in a show of solidarity with Britain following the poisoning of a former spy. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

‘Persona non grata’: Six Russian spies expelled from France after investigation

Julia Johnson · April 11, 2022 8:37 pm

A screen shows French President Emmanuel Macron and centrist candidate for reelection and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen at her election day headquarters, in Paris, Sunday, April 10, 2022.

French election: Macron will face off with far-right Le Pen in runoff

Christopher Hutton · April 10, 2022 7:52 pm

A man walks past presidential campaign posters of French President Emmanuel Macron and French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen in Anglet, France, on Wednesday.

Right-wing Marine Le Pen closes in on Macron in French election

Abigail Adcox · April 9, 2022 9:15 am

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, talks with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on March 30 at El Mouradia Palace in Algiers.

Europe’s other problem: Algeria

Zineb Riboua · April 8, 2022 3:00 am