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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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