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Many may sympathise with the French president's immigrant-bashing, but there is no guarantee they will vote for him. “Britain and France had to choose between war and...

A breakdown of how the election went in every EU country.

Christine Lagarde's Monroe impression. French President Nicolas Sarkozy was in full flow in Berlin on Sunday (10 May). Appearing at a rally alongside Angela Merkel, the...

The decision of the European Union's finance ministers to nominate Dominique Strauss-Kahn to become the next head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is the wrong choice...

“The horrific trade in cat and dog fur is about to meet its Waterloo.” Struan Stevenson, UK centre-right MEP, welcoming a European Parliament vote to ban the sale of cat...

Margot Wallström, the European commissioner for communication, irritated Joseph Daul, the French MEP who is leader of the Parliament's centre-right EPP-ED group, by...

Both the left and right-wing candidates going into the second round of the French presidential elections have indulged in attacks on the European Union's economic and...

In his ten years as prime minister, Tony Blair has failed to keep many promises, but he still believes that he has brought the UK closer to the heart of the EU....

“The France I dream of is a France that leaves no one behind, a France which is like a family, where the weakest, the most vulnerable, the most fragile have the right to as...

Up north we quickly got the mes-sage that France is and always has been a kind of father figure for the rest of Europe. Paris is mission control when it comes to political...

Most of the well-earned criticism directed at Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal, the leading candidates in France's presidential elections, not least from this...

The next president of France has embarked on an aggressive tirade of criticism against the European Union. The president who will have to convince the French people – or...

Jacques Chirac once said of François Bayrou, who aspires to succeed him as French president, that: “One day he will explode with vanity.” It may be this vanity...

France's European Commissioner Jacques Barrot has urged the candidates in his country's presidential elections to stop their “unjustified criticism of Europe” and accused...

Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, a pro-European London-based think-tank, awarded the European Union a grade C for “try harder” in his...

Investment bank Morgan Stanley has timed exquisitely its decision to name France “the new ‘sick man' of Europe”. The run-up to a bitterly contested presidential...

France's next president, who will be chosen this spring, will have to find a way to end French citizens' prolonged sulk over both the EU constitution and the enlargement of...

European Commission President José Manuel Barroso will attempt this month (21 March) to draw a line under the debate over public services by setting out overarching...

Is German Chancellor Angela Merkel going the wrong way about rescuing the EU's constitutional treaty? A new manifesto by the European Citizen Action Service (Ecas), issued in...

Those looking to the French election campaign for enlightenment as to how France's European policy might evolve under a president Ségolène Royal or a president...