French academics split on allowing English in school

In 2005 then French president Jacques Chirac annoyed then president Thabo Mbeki by advising him that he needed to understand "the mentality and soul of West Africa" better if he wanted to succeed in his efforts to mediate in the crisis in Ivory ...

This is the second time a President of the Fifth Republic has been indicted. After Jacques Chirac was accused of embezzlement while he was mayor of Paris, in a mild surprise, Nicolas Sarkozy, after five years of proceedings, has been accused of ...

ONLY ONE YEAR INTO his presidency, François Hollande, France's bland, indecisive, but stubbornly doctrinaire socialist leader, is already setting records. Admittedly they are not the sort of milestones that the French were hoping for when they ...

PARIS (AFP) -- French former president Nicolas Sarkozy is to be investigated over allegations that he accepted cash from former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi to fund his 2007 election campaign. Judicial sources confirmed Friday that a formal probe ...

Bordeaux: The judge who charged former president Nicolas Sarkozy with taking financial advantage of France's richest woman has received a bullet and a death threat in the post, lawyers say. Jean-Michel Gentil, the most prominent of three judges ...

French President François Hollande is scheduled to make his first state visit to China. The visit also marks Chinese President Xi Jinping's most important Western guest so far since taking office last month. There is reason to believe Hollande's ...

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy came out fighting on Friday after being placed under investigation for exploiting the mental frailty of the country's richest woman to raise election funds, with his lawyer rejecting the case as flawed. A ...

PARIS: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday denounced charges against him in connection with a probe into illegal party funding as unfair and unfounded. In his first personal reaction to the charge laid on Thursday, Sarkozy used his ...

French jobless claims rose to the highest ever, increasing pressure on President Francois Hollande to revive an economy that has been stalled for two years. The number of people actively looking for work increased by 36,900, or 1.2 percent, to 3.225 ...