France’s Challenges Ahead of Paris Olympics 2024: 10 Key Points
As France eagerly prepares to host the Paris Olympics, the nation faces a series of challenges that add complexity to the already tense build-up.
Jul 09, 2024, 17:54 PM IST
France Riots: 8 Photos Of Anarchy On Streets After Left’s Surprise Victory
In a dramatic turn of events, violence erupted across France as exit polls suggested a surprising lead for a left-wing coalition in the snap election. The news dealt a blow to Marine Le Pen's ambitions for a hard-right government, igniting widespread unrest. Video footage captured masked demonstrators running through the streets, igniting flares, and causing disturbances, prompting a nationwide deployment of riot police. As tensions escalate, the world closely to see how the political landscape will shift. (Picture Source: AP)
Jul 08, 2024, 14:30 PM IST
Emmanuel Macron wins France's presidential election
Macron has once again win the presidential election in France. Macron got 58.2 percent of the vote. Marina La Pene got 41.8 percent of the vote.
Apr 25, 2022, 07:48 AM IST
Emmanuel Macron's party set for huge French parliamentary majority
The vote delivered a further crushing blow to the Socialist and conservative parties that had alternated in power for decades.
Emmanuel Macron the mould-breaker - France's youngest leader since Napoleon
Emmanuel Macron's election represents a long-awaited generational change in French politics where the same faces have dominated for years.
May 08, 2017, 10:56 AM IST
Brigitte Macron was Emmanuel's drama teacher when he was 15 - Know more about French First Lady
Set to enter the Elysee presidential palace as First Lady, Brigitte Macron will keep coaching her husband, but on a bigger stage now.
May 08, 2017, 10:54 AM IST
A Who`s Who of Emmanuel Macron`s inner circle
Centrist Emmanuel Macron who was elected on Sunday to be France`s youngest leader since Napoleon mostly relied on a small group of 30-somethings to plot his run for the presidency.
May 08, 2017, 10:13 AM IST
Emmanuel Macron wins French presidency, to sighs of relief in Europe
With virtually all votes counted, Emmanuel Macron had topped 66 percent against just under 34 percent for Marine Le Pen - a gap wider than the 20 or so percentage points that pre-election surveys had suggested.
May 08, 2017, 08:48 AM IST
PM Narendra Modi 'looks forward' to working with Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Macron, 39, defeating Marine Le Pen yesterday, created history by becoming the youngest president in the 59-year history of the French Fifth Republic.
May 08, 2017, 08:40 AM IST
France's Macron files complaint over 'offshore account' claims
The pro-EU centrist Macron and Le Pen clashed repeatedly over terrorism, the economy and Europe in Wednesday`s hot-tempered debate watched by some 16.5 million people.
May 04, 2017, 23:46 PM IST
French right holds high-stakes presidential primary
It is the first rightwing primary to be held in France, and anyone who pays two euros ($2.1) and signs a declaration that, they subscribe to "the values of the centre and the right" can take part.
Nov 20, 2016, 20:42 PM IST
French in centre-right primary to pick presidential candidate to face Le Pen
"Political Islam is doing battle against our values. There`s no room for compromise," Fillon said.
Nov 20, 2016, 12:32 PM IST
France's greens pick candidate for 2017 presidential race
France`s green party EELV on Monday elected MEP and former Greenpeace activist Yannick Jadot as its candidate for next year`s presidential election.
Nov 08, 2016, 03:54 AM IST
