It is a story worthy of Alexandre Dumas. Falling from the Elysee palace to a grim Parisian prison, Nicolas Sarkozy could now help usher in one of the biggest political upheavals in modern France, ...

The leader of France's National Rally, Jordan Bardella, arrives at the French far-right party national rally near parliament in support of Marine Le Pen in Paris on April 6.

Twice in the 20th century, European nationalism was the force behind the two world wars. Now Donald Trump wants it to return.

President Donald Trump, who recently called Somali immigrants in the U.S. “garbage” and whose national security strategy ...

Peer into The Economist’s decision-making processes with Edward Carr, our deputy editor, who explains how we select and ...

What is it they like about the 30-year-old leader of the populist-right National Rally (RN)? “His ideas,” one grins. The ...

The US, under Donald Trump, is increasingly showing itself to be pro-Putin and anti-Europe. Paul Connew looks at how the press is covering and reacting to this historic realignment.

PARIS – Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy described the prison where he spent 20 days as a noisy, harsh “all-grey” ...

The current system, in which paying for sex is illegal, doesn't work, said Jean-Philippe Tanguy, a National Assembly member.

Mr Sarkozy wrote that his cell looked like a “cheap hotel, except for the armoured door and the bars”, with a hard mattress, a plastic-like pillow and a shower that produced only a thin stream of ...

Marine Le Pen's far-right party wants to bring back France's once legendary brothels, sparking a fresh debate about ...

Using deep beat knowledge, John Leicester and Samuel Petrequin identified a revealing trend when new French statistics showed ...