Links

French pensioners demand end to chip drought

Link

Residents of retirement home in Burgundy have missed their favourite side order because kitchen fryer has been out of order since early 2015.

France can reap rewards from Brexit and election says business chief

Link

Head of bosses' group MEDEF Pierre Gattaz expects investment boost from election of either François Fillon or Emmanuel Macron in May.

France anaesthetist investigated for poisoning patients

Link

The 45-year-old was placed under formal investigation suspected of poisoning seven patients - two of whom died - in eastern France.

France's former Socialist PM Valls backs Macron in election

Link

Announcement of support for independent candidate regarded by many in Socialist Party as a betrayal and new low in scandal-hit campaign.

Penelope Fillon faces formal investigation over 'fake jobs'

Link

Presidential candidate François Fillon's wife is placed under investigation on suspicion of complicity in misappropriating public funds.

Paris clashes after French police kill Chinese man

Link

China has formally complained and called on France to protect its nationals after 56-year-old Liu Shaoyo was shot dead on Sunday night.

France's left-wing rebel Jean-Luc Mélenchon targets the disenchanted

Link

Presidential candidate without a party overtakes official socialist candidate Benoît Hamon in polls and vows to make second round of election.

French Neo-Nazi group goes on trial in Amiens

Link

Eighteen members of the White Wolves Klan face 35 charges including armed violence, theft and attempted murder.

France's Marine Le Pen says 'European Union will die'

Link

Far-right presidential candidate said she would seek to replace it with a 'Europe of the people' based on a loose cooperative of nations.

French centre-right senators swap camp for Macron

Link

Nine senators from the UDI-UC centre-right parliamentary group signed a joint opinion article in French weekly Le JDD announcing they will support maverick centrist presidential election candidate Emmanuel Macron rather than conservative François Fillon who is mired in a scandal of alleged fraud and misuse of parliamentary funds.