Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy and a very French corruption scandal
Nicolas Sarkozy, 66, President of France from 2007 to 2012, currently a valued member of Emmanuel Macron’s informal council of…
Paris’s banlieues are burning once again
One of the persistent misconceptions of the riots that swept through France in the autumn of 2005 is that they…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, rang Jean-Claude Juncker to congratulate him on being nominated by EU heads of government…
France's political system is crumbling. What's coming next looks scary
The desperate state of its politics seems to signal the end of the Republic
A Russian occupation and a veterans' revolt – it's D-Day all over again
The phrase ‘ring of steel’ hardly begins to describe the operation here in Calvados country as we await the 70th…
François Hollande - all the president's women
Hollande’s affair demonstrates that the French are becoming more puritanical about monogamy
