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Only Britain can fix Calais
PARIS — Britain’s job market is what draws migrants to Calais — so it’s up to Prime Minister David Cameron to shoulder his share of the burden for a worsening crisis in northern France. That’s the...
View ArticleEurope’s sick farmer
The sight of French farmers blocking roads, torching tires and dumping their produce in the streets is a staple of French life — on par with the Tour de France and jet flyovers during the Bastille Day...
View ArticleMarine Le Pen to snub dad’s exclusion hearing
National Front chief Marine Le Pen and her closest ally will not attend a party hearing Thursday to decide whether her father should be thrown out of the French party for making a series of racist...
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National Front ousts Jean-Marie Le Pen
PARIS — Marine Le Pen has committed political parricide. Her far-right National Front party voted Thursday to exclude Jean-Marie Le Pen from the party he led for decades, capping a four-month family...
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Days of whine and rosés
FRANGY-EN-BRESSE, France — When rebel fighters retreat after a battlefield defeat, they usually seek thick jungle or remote mountains to regroup and plan their next attack. In this case, they sought a...
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Hollande, Merkel urge ceasefire in Ukraine
BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande called Monday for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and fresh talks with Russia, as fighting flared up between troops...
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France pushes Germany on ‘convergence, transfers’
BERLIN — Here’s a scenario for the next “Mission Impossible” film: Send a Frenchman to Berlin to convince Germany that France is truly determined to overhaul its economy. The man assigned to the job in...
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The European obsession with Trump
PARIS — The media here has got a Continental strain of Trump fever. Since the real estate mogul made a shocking surge to the top of the Republican presidential polls in the U.S., Europe has fixated on...
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Europe pledges more surveillance after Thalys attack
PARIS — European nations vowed to beef up surveillance on trains and in stations after a foiled terror attack on a cross-border Thalys line last week, but more extensive measures — like making ID...
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France, Germany to propose migration crisis fix
France and Germany will next week propose a series of “mandatory” measures to deal with Europe’s migration crisis, including plans to better distribute migrants among member states. The European Union...
View ArticleJean-Marie Le Pen to start new party
MARSEILLE, France — French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen said Saturday he was starting his own party, just days after he was thrown out of the National Front group over a series of offensive...
View ArticleNational Front: Merkel wants migrants as ‘slaves’
MARSEILLE, France — Marine Le Pen’s top aide accused German Chancellor Angela Merkel Saturday of encouraging illegal migration to Europe so that her country’s industry would be supplied with “slaves,”...
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Le Pen’s class warfare
PARIS — Marine Le Pen is getting ready to crash the party of France’s ruling elites. Next month her far-right National Front party will seek to register officially as a political student group at...
View ArticleNational Front faces formal embezzlement probe
PARIS — Marine Le Pen’s far-right party was placed under formal investigation Wednesday on suspicion that it participated in an embezzlement scheme during France’s 2012 legislative elections. National...
View ArticleFrance’s great 35-hour workaround
French President François Hollande is embarking on a highly anticipated reform of his country’s labor code, but he won’t be going anywhere near the elephant in the room: the 35-hour work week. The...
View ArticleDSK attacks ‘visionless’ French government
PARIS — Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, spares no warm feelings for his former Socialist Party colleagues running the French government. But he would be...
View ArticleFrance to launch air attacks in Syria in ‘coming weeks’
PARIS — France will conduct air strikes in Syria in coming weeks to try to halt the spread of Islamic State and prevent terrorist attacks at home, Defense Minister Jean-Yves le Drian said Wednesday, a...
View ArticleFormer French PM breaks taboo on ethnic statistics
Ex-French Prime Minister François Fillon is calling for France to start collecting ethnic statistics, breaking a taboo as he tries to catch up with rivals in a race to win their party’s nomination to...
View ArticleMarine Le Pen to face trial for inciting racial hatred
Marine Le Pen, head of France’s far-right National Front party, will face trial in October on a charge of inciting racial hatred for having compared Muslim street prayers to the occupation of France by...
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France launches airstrikes in Syria
PARIS — French warplanes have struck targets in Syria for the first time, President François Hollande’s office said Sunday. The strikes were launched against targets identified during reconnaissance...
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