This would revert the current rules to those of 1993 ‘Pasqua law’. This stated that minors born in France to foreign parents ...

The political scientist and former Euro MP publishes 'Chained Europe', a harsh review of the deficits that threaten the European Union project. "If we do not reformulate the Treaties and endow it with ...

led by Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, elected in 1997. While Chirac was widely hated in the working class, and his re-election bid was viewed as precarious, Jospin and the PS represented no ...

He got close to winning during the 2002 presidential election when he beat socialist candidate Lionel Jospin in the first round to face Jacques Chirac in the second round. The latter ended up ...

Le Pen's staunchly anti-immigration National Front (FN) burst into the frontline of French politics, and in 2002 he famously eliminated Socialist Lionel Jospin in presidential elections to make the ...

The co-founder of the main French postwar far-right movement Jean-Marie Le Pen is to be buried Saturday at a strictly family-only funeral after his death aged 96 exposed polarising attitudes ...

Victor Wembanyama inspires the San Antonio Spurs to a 140-110 victory against the Indiana Pacers at Accor Arena in Paris, ...

Once called the 'most hated man in France', Le Pen maintained that his ideas were simply 'ahead of their time' ...

He stood for president five times, most successfully in 2002 when he shocked France by defeating Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin in the first round of voting, Jacques Chirac in the second round ...

In 2002, he created a huge surprise when he made it to the second-round of the presidential election, having seen off the Socialist favourite Lionel Jospin before losing to conservative Jacques ...