Links

Hollande admits 'no chance' of re-election without job creation

Link

French president tells workers that if jobless totals stay same 'I have either no reason to be a candidate or no chance of being re-elected'.

France's Front National leader 'opens arms' to UKIP party

Link

But British anti-European Union party says it is not interested in a deal because of 'prejudice and anti-Semitism in particular' in the FN's 'DNA'.

Films by four French directors short-listed for Cannes' top prize

Link

Jeran-Luc Godard’s 'Adieu au Langage' (Goodbye to Language) and Bertrand Bonnello’s 'Saint Laurent' among films competing for top prize.

French school rape case: only one student refuses DNA testing

Link

Police investigating rape at lycée in La Rochelle say the student, aged over 18, declined to give sample for personal reasons.

Founder of scandal-hit drugmaker Servier dies at 92

Link

Jacques Servier was founder of company that made Mediator weight-loss drug which has been blamed by officials for up to 500 deaths.

Animals have feelings too, French MPs decree

Link

French Parliament amends law to acknowldge that animals, previously on a legal par with furniture, are 'living beings endowed with sensibilities'.

France set to freeze welfare payments

Link

Spelling out measures which angered sections of his own party, new prime minister Manuel Valls said: 'We cannot live beyond our means.'

Paris police memo calling for Roma eviction ‘rectified’

Link

Original memo caused row after it said Roma families needed to be 'evicted' from well-heeled district of French capital.

French socialists pick veteran to run party after poll rout

Link

Jean-Christophe Cambadelis, 63, a one-time political opponent of President Hollande, has to tackle growing dissent from the far-left of party.

France tackles sex assault in military

Link

Defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian presents 36-page report and says there will be 'zero tolerance' for assaults and harassment of women recruits.