The eligibility ban on presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen and the market-wrecking tariffs of U.S. President Trump are just ...

In the stand-off, 73-year-old Barnier has little to lose. After a long political career, he knew that accepting the premiership was a final roll of the dice. By contrast the stakes are high for Le Pen ...

France has passed through more than a dozen different constitutions since the Revolution of 1789, depending on how one counts. Its current constitutional regime, the Fifth Republic, was ushered ...

It would ignite a major political storm at a time when the French Fifth Republic has appeared increasingly dysfunctional. On the one hand stands the principle, as Nicolas Barret, one of the ...

Yet under the French Fifth Republic, introduced by Charles de Gaulle in 1958, until this year the French had never re-elected a sitting president who had a parliamentary majority. Why is it so ...