Francois Hollande News

The man charged with reviving France's shrinking economy and attracting businesses to invest here is gaining a reputation for doing the opposite.

The French government has decided to drop a plan to impose a ceiling on executive pay in the private sector, though it will go ahead with a two-year super-tax on firms paying million-euro salaries, Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said.

Police arrest a protester during riots in Athens Oct. 19, 2011. Officials in Berlin say the government is worried about Germany's image across the continent, as austerity measures contribute to record youth unemployment in countries such as Greece, Spain and Portugal.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel shakes hands with French President Francois Hollande after his speech at a ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of the foundation of Germany's Social Democratic Party in Leipzig, May 23, 2013.

IT ALL started with the word "normal". FranA ois Hollande chose the term to define the sort of president he promised to be.

Radical feminist group Femen has responded to the public suicide of a 78-year-old far-right author by staging a topless demonstration in Paris's most famous cathedral.

Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, was summoned to testify Thursday about her role in the settlement of a multi-million-dollar business dispute when she was French finance minister in 2008.

US Secretary of State John Kerry and British Foreign Secretary William Hague discuss Syria at the Friends of Syria meeting in Amman on Wednesday evening World powers urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to commit to peace but warned Thursday that if he fails to negotiate a political transition they would boost their backing of the opposition.

In an attack that raised new fears of terrorism in Britain, a man walking near a military barracks in south London on Wednesday was rammed by a car and then hacked to death by two knife-wielding assailants, according to witness accounts carried by British news media.

Defenders of the French language are furious at plans to introduce courses taught in English at public universities, arguing that France must protect itself against linguistic encroachment or risk losing its cultural identity.

Lawmakers in the United Kingdom's House of Commons approved a bill Tuesday that would allow same-sex couples in England and Wales to marry for the first time.

Stateside, you might guess it was the alternative minimum tax. In France, it was a one-time 2011 levy on incomes for households with assets over 1.3 million euros .

The European Union is reassessing whether to declare the Lebanese party Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist organization, a move it has long shied from despite pressure from the U.S., officials said Wednesday.

A man has been killed in a violent attack in the south-east London area of Woolwich.

The European Union is reassessing whether to declare the Lebanese party Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist organization, a move it has long shied from despite pressure from the U.S., officials said Wednesday.

European leaders targeted Wednesday setting a year-end deadline to do away with banking secrecy, hoping to recoup a trillion euros in lost tax each year in a time of record recession and unemployment.

France's National Assembly is taking up an education reform bill that would allow public universities to hold some courses - like science or economics classes - in English, a plan that has alarmed language purists and the political far-right alike.

David Cameron is to urge EU leaders to back global action against tax evasion and "aggressive" tax avoidance that is causing nations "staggering" losses.

A right-wing French historian and activist shot himself to death today in Paris's famed Notre Dame Cathedral, apparently in protest of the nation's new marriage equality law.

French right-wing historian Dominique Venner shot and killed himself on the altar of Paris' famed Notre Dame Cathedral today at 4PM local time in front of throngs of tourists in protest of France's recent legalization of same-sex marriage.