It has scarcely occurred to the elegant doctrinaires of the French Academy to accept democracy as a stubborn fact, and to mould it into an ally of sound constitutional government. Yet this was the ...

France appears to be an island of pessimism, according to a political confidence barometer published by Cevipof on February ...

Sixty days after the parliamentary elections that delivered a hung parliament, French President Emmanuel Macron has nominated ...

NICE, France (AP) — France's main left-wing coalition on Tuesday accused President Emmanuel Macron of denying democracy after he rejected the New Popular Front's candidate for prime minister ...

“Many French people get involved every day in both big and small ways in all kinds of issues – some social or ecological, others advocating human rights and democracy, but they are bitterly ...

Several prominent voices argued that Ferrand’s prestigious appointment could politicize an independent institution at the heart of French democracy, especially as it gets ready to render a decision ...

But is French democracy functioning? Faith in conventional politics and the parliamentary system is in fact at rock-bottom. How else to explain the collapse of Gaullists and Socialists ...

Demonstrators shouted “Where is French democracy?” and unfurled banners at the start of the address in The Hague by Macron, who has faced violent protests and strikes at home over pensions ...