France Unbowed

Issued on: 24/11/2022 - 19:02 A bid to ban bullfighting in France was abandoned on Thursday after a bill that would have made the blood sport illegal was withdrawn by the…

Issued on: 03/11/2022 - 20:50Modified: 03/11/2022 - 20:54 A French parliament session was thrown into turmoil Thursday after a far-right MP was accused of yelling "back to…

Issued on: 16/10/2022 - 12:23 Three weeks into a refinery strike that has caused fuel shortages across the country, thousands of protesters are set to march in Paris on…

Issued on: 21/09/2022 - 11:58 Two key parties in France's left-wing alliance were Wednesday facing crises after senior figures were accused of violence against women, with a…

Issued on: 11/07/2022 - 15:36Modified: 11/07/2022 - 15:41 French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne is expected to survive her first no-confidence vote in parliament on Monday…

Issued on: 06/07/2022 - 06:50 French Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne will on Wednesday lay out the government's policy priorities in her first speech in front of what promises…

Issued on: 30/06/2022 - 14:37 Hard-left MP Eric Coquerel was elected chair of the French parliament's powerful finance committee on Thursday, a day after the far-right…

In his first public remarks since parliamentary elections deprived his governing coalition of a majority, French President Emmanuel Macron called on France’s reinvigorated opposition blocs to come up with solutions to…

Coming on the heels of the Élysée Palace race, France’s legislative elections are often seen as an appendix to the presidential contest, a sideshow designed to hand the freshly elected president a working majority. It’s…

Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s far-left France Unbowed (La France Insoumise or LFI) party, which came in third in the first round of the 2022 presidential election, has had 17 MPs in the National Assembly since the 2017 …