Jean-Yves Camus

Protests by French high school students over poor conditions turned violent in parts of the country on Tuesday, with nearly 500 people arrested and President Emmanuel Macron calling an emergency meeting with senior officials

A 15-year-old student had their hand blown off after picking up a stun grenade used by police in a violent protest this week

They may stem from different specific grievances, but the two waves of mainly youth-led protest exemplify a growing problem for western European governments: a generation of young people feeling increasingly denied the basic socioeconomic security that, by and large, their parents enjoyed

Antisemitism Allegations Threaten French Far Right’s Efforts to Clean Up Its Image

The decision by the 57-year-old veteran of three presidential races sets up a fourth campaign like no other: potentially seeking votes while subject to monitoring and with a judge possibly deciding how, and for how long, the punishment is applied

It was hardly an epochal dispute, but when France’s two leading far-right politicians, Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, split recently over whether to impose a windfall profits tax on a giant French oil company — she was all for it; he was reluctant — political analysts in Paris sat up and took notice

The result spelled the end of Orbánr’s 16 years as prime minister, during which he tightened ties with populist and illiberal forces while enjoying Trump team backing

Now, those politicians must reckon with the bruising defeat of a man who was at once their leadership model, intellectual godfather and, in some cases, long-distance financier

The 57-year-old National Rally (RN) leader is seeking to overturn a ruling delivered in March 2025 that found her guilty of misusing European Parliament funds