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Sacrebleu! Uber conquers France
PARIS — The sharing economy is mounting a serious challenge to France’s rule-bound labor tradition, right under the noses of its fearsome trade unions. Led by firms like Uber, Airbnb and the French...
View ArticleLe Pen’s National Front gets into elite Sciences Po
PARIS — French far-right party Front National (FN) gained entry to the distinguished French school of political sciences Sciences Po as a student association Thursday, a symbolic step into elite...
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Hollande reins in Macron
PARIS — French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron’s questioning of sacred tenets of the Socialist Party is reaping rewards with the public, but leaving the “golden boy” of French politics increasingly...
View ArticleIranian dissidents warn human rights worse under Rouhani
PARIS — An Iranian dissident who fled his country after being imprisoned in Tehran for five years said in an interview Saturday that conditions for prisoners had worsened and human rights violations...
View ArticleMarine Le Pen targets Muslim voters
PARIS — Marine Le Pen’s National Front party wants to conquer a new and unlikely voting bloc: Muslims, whose praying in streets she once compared to the occupation of France by Nazis during World War...
View ArticleThe Frenchman who wants to save the world
When French presidents need to bolster their green credentials on the world stage, they know who to call: Nicolas Hulot, a former TV nature show host turned high-flying ecological activist. The...
View ArticleEx-IMF chief faces fraud probe over failed venture
Former International Monetary Fund director Dominique Strauss-Kahn faces a preliminary investigation into suspicion of fraud and embezzlement over a failed investment venture, French radio France Inter...
View ArticleSarkozy takes punches as rivals watch, wait
LIMOGES, France — Call it the phony truce of the French Right. After a summer of sniping, Nicolas Sarkozy’s rivals in the race to win their Les Républicains party’s presidential nomination have...
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Poll: Marion Le Pen headed for victory
Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, the granddaughter of ex-National Front party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, is on course to win a December local election in southeastern France. An Odoxa survey published Sunday...
View ArticleProsecutor seeks acquittal in Le Pen hate speech trial
A prosecutor in the French city of Lyon has recommended the acquittal of far-right chief Marine Le Pen in a trial over hate speech charges, French media reported Tuesday. Le Pen, president of the...
View ArticleLe Pen’s new army of defectors
PARIS — Guy Deballe is not your typical National Front activist. A Parisian executive at a top-tier technology company, he spent much of his life defending left-wing values as a mid-ranking activist in...
View ArticleAir France gives Hollande a bumpy ride
A labor dispute at Air France is turning into a nightmare for President François Hollande, who has vowed to improve the country’s notoriously conflict-prone industrial relations. Two weeks after Air...
View ArticleLe Pen, Sarkozy star in French TV talk show fiasco
PARIS — With its culture of impassioned harangues in parliament, verbal knife-throwing and heartfelt monologues, French politics often verges on vaudeville theater. This week, it slipped clear into the...
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French Socialist MP predicts Le Pen presidency
Could French far-right leader Marine Le Pen win the 2017 presidential race? Malek Boutih, a French MP from President François Hollande’s ruling Socialist Party, certainly thinks so. He said as much...
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Sarkozy’s Russian fling
Once upon a time, Nicolas Sarkozy was such a fervent admirer of the United States that an American diplomat described him in 2009 as “the most pro-American French president since World War II,”...
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Sarkozy calls Putin record ‘positive’
Nicolas Sarkozy told a group of Russian students Thursday that Vladimir Putin’s record in office had been “more positive than negative,” as he called for closer ties with Russia during a controversial...
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Hollande’s discrimination problem
PARIS — Of all the reforms promised by François Hollande during his 2012 presidential campaign, pledge 30.2 — “to fight against discrimination in housing and hiring” — is one he might like to see...
View ArticleReturn of the Sarko-cop
PARIS — Nicolas Sarkozy sought Tuesday to revive an image he first cultivated more than a decade ago when, as a middling politician, he used his nomination as French interior minister to impose himself...
View ArticleFrench PM scraps pledge to let foreigners vote
PARIS — French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said his government had no plan to let foreigners vote in local elections, backpedaling formally on a 2012 campaign pledge by Socialist President François...
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France’s Mediapart claims political motive in tax audit
French investigative web site Mediapart, whose reporting brought down a former budget minister in President François Hollande’s cabinet, called for financial help from readers Thursday after being hit...
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