Nicolas Sarkozy News

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, on a visit to Israel, hit out at Europe on Wednesday for failing to act in the wake of the ongoing civil war in Syria.

The National Assembly on Wednesday was 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.

The National Assembly on Wednesday was 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.

Now that Carla Bruni is no longer France's First Lady, she might have expected the spotlight to be back on her music career with the release of her fourth album, Little French Songs.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde will be questioned by a French magistrate on Thursday over her role in a 285-million-euro arbitration payment made to a supporter of former president Nicolas Sarkozy.

ONLY ONE YEAR INTO his presidency, FranA ois Hollande, France's bland, indecisive, but stubbornly doctrinaire socialist leader, is already setting records.

A gay couple embrace after the French parliament approved a law allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children French President Francois Hollande has signed a bill legalising gay marriage in France, after a right-wing challenge to the law was rejected by the country's Constitutional Council.

The court rejected the challenge but did clarify that the right of same-sex couples to adopt does not establish [France24 report] a "right to a child." French President Francois Hollande [official website, in French], a supporter of the legislation, is expected to sign the bill into law next week.

France's president is to sign into law a controversial bill that will make the country the eighth in Europe, and 14th globally, to legalise gay marriage.

The government is considering posting dedicated cultural attaches at South Africa's missions abroad, Arts and Culture Minister Paul Mashatile said on Thursday.

After years of neglect, periodic riots, and unfulfilled promises from the state, Paris's low-income suburbs are finally doing for themselves what had long been promised to them - creating opportunities for economic development and social integration.

Playing the 2022 World Cup in the searing summer heat of Qatar is "not rational and reasonable," FIFA President Sepp Blatter said in a newspaper interview.

Taxes in France are levied in various forms. No one is spared from it, not even ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy who finally had to shift to neighboring country to avoid paying taxes.

France and Germany set the tone in the EU. But relations between Berlin and Paris have reached a low point, to the detriment of all of Europe.

President France Hollande's government launched consultations on Monday with trade union leaders and employers on an overhaul of France's pension system, a reform seen as vital to sorting out French public finances.

Mrs, Thatcher having passed away, a UMP - Union pour un Movement Populaire - councillor, JA©rA me Dubus, motioned at a Paris municipal meeting that a street or square in Paris should be named after her: Rue or Avenue or Boulevard, or Place Margaret Thatcher.

Partial results in France's municipal elections on Sunday showed President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative party headed toward defeat and losing control of key cities, a new setback for a leader beset by sinking support.

It was hailed as a giant step forward for racial integration in a country that has long been ill at ease with its growing immigrant classes.

The French government argues that universities like the Sorbonne in Paris need to compete internationally.

The headlines that greeted French President Francois Hollande as he celebrated his first year in office this week have painted a sober picture of a man -- and a country -- in deep trouble.