French Election

As we head into the Paris Olympics, has the dream been compromised, even ruined, by other upheavals in France’s fevered summer?

President Macron’s young party has won an overall majority in the French parliament, but with relatively low voter turnout their mandate for radical change isn’t absolute

The election of centrist Emmanuel Macron as the new French president can be seen as an endorsement of the European Union

Emmanual Macron has risen rapidly from little-known bureaucrat to frontrunner in the French presidential campaign

With Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen the last two candidates standing in the French election, the mainstream parties have been shunned. Our experts look at the implications.

A clear divide is emerging in the electorate, along similar lines to Trump and Brexit

Despite polling well in the lead-up to the 2017 French presidential election, the controversial figure is unlikely to triumph

Europe’s social democratic parties are failing to articulate a vision for the future, fuelling the rise of the populist Right

Vladimir Putin’s pursuit of returning Russia to ‘Superpower’ status hinges on weakening the European Union