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  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Emmanuel Macron
    Macron sticks by loyalists in new French government

    Economy and interior ministers retained in cabinet headed by Élisabeth Borne

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    News in-depthFrench politics
    French parties of left and right battle for survival in June elections

    Socialists and Les Républicains tempted by alliances to win National Assembly seats

  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
    French overseas territories show their dissatisfaction by pivoting to Le Pen

    Former colonies angry over Covid mandates and failures in public health switch allegiance to far right

  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    France hands victory to Macron and liberal democracy

    Russia’s war in Ukraine, economic pressures and social discontent will test the president

  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
    News in-depthMarine Le Pen
    Marine Le Pen vows to stick around despite third failed presidential bid

    Far-right politician’s family name is one of the barriers to power, political analysts say

  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
    Emmanuel Macron’s election victory over Marine Le Pen in charts

    The re-elected French president picked up votes from supporters of beaten leftwing candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon

  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
    Trade Secrets
    Normalité, familiarité, continuité after Macron’s re-election Premium content

    How the French president may have insulated himself against the populist challenge on trade

  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
    Ruchir Sharma
    The fat French state is about to get fatter

    Voters are discontented but have no appetite for reforms that would tackle what really ails the nation

  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
    Gideon Rachman
    This is Macron’s chance to shape Europe’s future

    The French president is better placed than ever to push forward with his EU ambitions but the rows will have to stop

  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
    News in-depth
    Emmanuel Macron’s victory masks France’s ‘fragility’

    Re-elected president faces divisions ahead of parliamentary election in June 

  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
    Macron defeats Le Pen to be re-elected French president

    Incumbent wins with 58.5% of vote as far-right rival vows to fight on in June parliamentary polls

  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
    Europe Express
    Europe dodges populist bullet in French vote Premium content

    Macron’s re-election set to energise Brussels policymaking

  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Emmanuel Macron elected to second term as French president

    EU approves groundbreaking rules to police Big Tech platforms

  • Sunday, 24 April, 2022
    Instant InsightBen Hall
    Victory for Macron is not an instant cure for all France’s ills

    Legislative elections could yet leave the re-elected president with his wings clipped

  • Sunday, 24 April, 2022
    French go to polls as Macron faces Le Pen for presidency

    Voters will decide between liberal incumbent and far-right challenger

  • Saturday, 23 April, 2022
    Person in the News
    Emmanuel Macron, France’s risk-taker-in-chief

    The president bidding for a second five-year term is no stranger to political gambles

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Macron vs Le Pen: Latest polls for the French presidential election

    Latest data ahead of the run-off on April 24

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Macron and Le Pen in last-gasp appeal to French voters

    President solidifies frontrunner status with clear lead in polls as chances of electoral upset recede

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Europe Express
    Plans for EU oil embargo against Russia still raise questions Premium content

    Officials in Brussels are working on the sixth sanctions package in response to the war in Ukraine

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    The Weekend Essay
    Macron, Le Pen and France’s long battle between order and dissent

    Charles de Gaulle said the French were ‘ingouvernables’. Do the country’s widening divisions prove him right?

  • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
    News in-depth
    ‘A demand for dignity’: How French Muslims lost faith in Macron

    Community disappointed by president for neglecting poorer suburbs and passing divisive anti-terror laws

  • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
    FT MagazineSimon Kuper
    Why the French think they’ve never had it so bad

    Politicians like Marine Le Pen perpetuate the gloom by indulging in fantasies of national decline

  • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
    Jérémie Gallon
    France must balance diplomatic panache with a dash of humility

    The winner of Sunday’s election needs a foreign policy fit for a changing Europe

  • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
    Rachman Review podcast29 min listen
    Le Pen, patriots and the anti-globalist movement

    Pascal Lamy on the French election and the nationalist right

  • Wednesday, 20 April, 2022
    Instant InsightBen Hall
    No knockout blows landed in French debate as Le Pen keeps her cool

    Aggressive Macron delivers sharpest blows but restrained and moderate approach shows challenger has learned from 2017

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