July 2024
How the Olympics will change Paris
After a divisive election, this northern summer’s Games will fire the starting gun on a vast project to transform the French capital.
September 2023
The fundamental reason China will struggle to dethrone the dollar
A BRICS currency challenging the dollar is a fantasy, but China has problems that will hamper the renminbi’s attempts to take over the US currency’s role.
January 2023
Macron digs in as hostility to pension reform spreads
Since the first 24-hour walkout, surveys show growing numbers are ready to defy Mr Macron on pensions, with more than two-thirds opposing the overhaul.
March 2021
Former French president Sarkozy sentenced to jail for corruption
The conviction was the culmination of one of the long-running legal entanglements that are coming to a head for Nicolas Sarkozy who led France from 2007 to 2012.
October 2020
Macron vows crackdown on radical Islam
French President Emmanuel Macron has outlined measures designed to rein in the influence of radical Islam in the country and help develop what he called an "Islam of France".
July 2020
Olivia de Havilland, a star of ‘Gone With the Wind’, dies at 104
De Havilland was both a classic Hollywood beauty and an honoured screen actress whose very name and bearing suggested membership in a kind of aristocracy of moviedom.
January 2020
The EU is going to miss the UK when it's gone
In the EU’s corridors of power, people ask where it all went wrong and the overriding feeling among its political elite remains one of regret.
December 2019
Macron has failed to lift France's gloom
A nation distrustful of change cannot bring itself to look at the facts.
November 2019
Five things I've learnt about saving the world
A new set of rules on climate change is altering the way we eat, dress, travel and work.
June 2019
Soccer great Michel Platini detained in Qatar 2022 World Cup probe
The man who got France to two World Cup semi-finals has been held for questioning in awarding the sporting tournament to a country with few football stadiums.