France wasn’t scheduled to have legislative elections until 2027. It’s not that common for a French leader to call an early vote, unlike some of its neighbors in Europe and elsewhere.

France’s snap parliamentary election is one of the most momentous in decades, for both the country and the rest of Europe. Within two weeks, France could have a hard-left or hard-right ...

Macron dissolved France's National Assembly, the lower chamber of Parliament, last month and called a surprise snap election after his party was trounced by the National Rally in European Union ...

All 577 seats in France’s National Assembly are being ... government given the much higher stakes of national elections compared to EU elections. But he may have inadvertently brought left ...

Clément Beaune, Emmanuel Macron’s anti-Brexit pitbull, lost his Paris seat in the first round of France’s snap election. Mr Beaune, who was Europe minister during the Brexit negotiations ...

BRUSSELS — The European Union’s executive arm on Wednesday criticized France for running up excessive debt, a stinging rebuke at the height of an election campaign where President Emmanuel ...

France’s July 7 election could see the country’s nationalist, anti-immigrant party achieve a majority, or send the nation into months of political deadlock. By Aurelien Breeden Reporting from ...

Les Républicains and the Socialists, the country’s old establishment parties, see a narrow window to reclaim relevance.

"The European Union has strict rules in terms of ensuring deficits don’t leap too high," Streeter said. "It’s going in the wrong way for France." U.K. ELECTION CREATES NEW WRINKLE FOR COUNTRY ...

France wasn’t scheduled to have legislative elections until 2027. It’s not that common for a French leader to call an early vote, unlike some of its neighbors in Europe and elsewhere.