French unions plan another day of mass street protests and strikes on Thursday to fight Nicolas Sarkozy’s plan to hike the retirement age to 62, the centrepiece of the right-wing president’s reforms. Sarkozy, already under attack from the...

France, which has been sharply criticized for deporting hundreds of Roma, defended its actions on Tuesday and accused Romania of not doing enough to integrate members of its Roma minority. The continuing public defense came as two French ministers met...

France confined a senior military officer to quarters for 10 days on Friday after video footage appeared online showing him threatening a Togolese press photographer in Lome. Lieutenant Colonel Romuald Letondot has been recalled from Togo to France and...

French opposition lawmakers and media attacked a host of new government proposals targeting Gypsies and immigrants suspected of crimes, charging Sunday that President Nicolas Sarkozy was pandering to the far-right in a bid to boost his popularity. The...

A video has emerged showing French police evicting African immigrants with babies and children during a housing protest in a Paris suburb. Police arrived in the north-east Parisian suburb of La Courneuve last Wednesday and asked a group of about 60...

Just before the France-Ireland football match in Paris, I met my charming, gentle, retired, 60-something, French neighbour on the stairs of our Paris apartment building. “No,” he said. “I’m not watching the match. I never watch...

Given the Panthéon’s function as the final repose for France’s greatest heroes, it’s perhaps not surprising that efforts are now afoot to relocate the ashes of writer and philosopher Albert Camus to a site beneath the 18th century...

France is considering the compulsory “chemical castration” of sexual criminals after a woman jogger was murdered in a forest south of Paris by a convicted rapist. The “voluntary” use of drugs to destroy or limit the libido is...

The main French opposition party, the Socialists – delighted to have an issue to distract from their own internal back-stabbing – have accused the President of “scandalous collusion” with parts of the media. The Elysée Palace,...

Some of the world’s biggest banks have revealed they are victims of an alleged fraud which has lost $50bn (£33bn).Bernard Madoff, who was arrested on Thursday, has been charged with fraud in what is being described as one of the biggest-ever such...