The head of the left-wing France Insoumise wants to break his country out of a binary contest between the neoliberal center and a rising far right. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, founder of the left-wing party ...
The personality most identified with it is Jean Luc Melenchon, who has run for president three times, the last time in 2022, when he gathered 21.9 percent of the votes, finishing third after ...
“Marine Le Pen has reinvented herself. Her style now is more moderate,” reckons Jacques Rupnik, a French political scientist, ahead of the country’s widely anticipated battle for the presidency. Many ...
PARIS — Top contenders for the 2027 presidential election in France laid out their vision for Europe, Ukraine and relationships with fellow capitals at POLITICO’s first Playbook Paris Live summit on ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jean-Luc Mélenchon: 'With me, the very rich will have to pay. Those who don't want to pay will be hunted down to hell' - Magali ...
PARIS — French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon says he wants to set France's debt “on fire.” Now his allies are scrambling to spell out what he means. The leftist leader’s controversial plan ...
Far-left leaders are cheering on the students. Government officials accuse them of stirring up the unrest for political gain. By Mark Landler Reporting from Paris He shook hands and posed for selfies.
During the riots that affected France for six days following the police murder of Nahel M, veteran pseudo-left politician and leader of Unsubmissive France (LFI) Jean Luc Mélenchon played a cynical ...
La France Insoumise gives voice to the left-behind, and progressives approve. But many recoil from a leftwing leader whose foreign policy is stuck in 1985 Théodore Abitbol is a self-described ...
Far-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon could garner enough support for a face-off against far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the second round of the French presidential election next spring, according to an ...
The French government is set to fall Monday, amid bitter divisions in the National Assembly. Across Europe, the ruling class wants savage social cuts in order to finance surging military spending and ...