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  • Hollande holds cabinet crisis meeting after election debacle

    France — Link

    French president met with inner cabinet Monday to discuss his government's way forward after socialist trouncing in European elections.

  • French press not lost for words to describe far-right landslide EU election win

    International — Link

    Monday's French press banner headlines describe the Front National party's victory in European elections as a 'big bang' and an 'earthquake'.

  • European elections: the vote in France

    France

    France’s 46 million registered voters went to the polls on Sunday to elect the country’s allotted 74 members of the European Union’s 751-seat European Parliament. France is one of 21 European Union states that voted on Sunday, with elections already held, beginning last Thursday, in the remaining seven. The elected representatives will have a mandate of five years, and this year’s poll has a heightened importance because of the European parliament’s expanding powers over EU decision-making.  In France, opinion surveys predicted a surge in support for the far-right Front National (FN) party, but their forecasts were largely surpassed. The same surveys predicted a debacle for the mainstream Right and the ruling Socialist Party, which were similarly confirmed. Mediapart's English-language service reported live on the key results in France as they came in through the evening in this special edition that begins with a presentation how the voting functions and what is at stake.

  • French voters turn out in higher than expected numbers for European election

    International — Link

    Early estimates show higher turnout than in previous elections in 2009, while far-right predicted to make strong gains.

  • GE pledges to keep Alstom nuclear unit in France

    International — Link

    The US company, bidding for Alstom's energy arm, said it would satisfy French government's demand that nuclear unit remain in France.

  • France ups security at Jewish sites following Brussels shootings

    International — Link

    The move came after the murders of an Israeli couple and a Frenchwoman at the Brussels Jewish museum and an anti-Semitic attack near Paris.

  • Toulouse gunman's sister 'may have joined Jihad in Syria'

    International — Link

    French interior minister says Souad Merah, whose brother shot dead seven people in south-west France in 2012, is believed to be in Syria.

  • French far-right hoping to build on disillusions with EU

    France — Link

    France's far-right Front National party is tipped to make important gains from mainstream Right in Sunday's European Parliament elections.

  • 'Selfie' makes its way into France's famed dictionary

    France — Link

    Le Petit Robert, France’s most respected dictionary, has included 'selfie' in its next edition and can now be used in French school exam papers.

  • Briton makes history as member of the Académie Française

    France — Link

    British poet and academic Sir Michael Edwards is the first Briton to be admitted to the academy which rules over the French language. 

  • DNA tests fail to solve French school rape case

    France — Link

    No DNA from 539 male pupils and staff matched genetic material on the clothing of a teenage girl who said she was raped in a dark bathroom.

  • Jean-Marie Le Pen says Ebola virus 'can solve immigration problems'

    International — Link

    At a meeting in Marseille, the founder of France's far-right Front National party said the virus could save France from 'submersion'.

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