ELISABETH BORNE

French President Emmanuel Macron has led the traditional ceremony on Paris’ Champs-Elysees Monday commemorating May 8, the day that marked the end of World War II in Europe in 1945.

French President Emmanuel Macron says that he heard people’s anger over raising the retirement age from 62 to 64.

Police have fired clouds of tear gas against unruly protesters in Paris and other French cities as hundreds of thousands of people vented anger against President Emmanuel Macron’s contested pension reforms.

French trade union leaders have walked out of talks with the country's prime minister after failing to find a compromise on the contentious plan to raise the country’s retirement age from 62 to 64 years.

The Louvre Museum in Paris has been closed to the public because its workers took part in the wave of French protest strikes against the government’s unpopular pension reform plans.

French garbage collectors, refinery workers and others are striking again.

Protesters have vandalized the Nice office of the president of the Republican party in an apparent threat to get his right-wing party to vote to block President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform.

It's a time of protest in Paris and much of France, where opponents hope to bring down the government of President Emmanuel Macron.

French President Emmanuel Macron has chosen to shun parliament and impose his unpopular pension reforms via a special constitutional power, the so-called “Article 49_3.”.

French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered his prime minister to use a special constitutional power that skirts parliament to force through highly unpopular pension system changes.

An unpopular bill that would raise the retirement age in France from 62 to 64 has gotten a push forward.

French President Emmanuel Macron's pension plan has unleashed the most turbulent debate in years in the National Assembly, with uncertainty looming over the final outcome.

The French parliament has started debating President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular pension reform proposals, which prompted strikes and large demonstrations in recent weeks.

French authorities say an estimated 1.27 million people have joined in nationwide protests against the government’s planned pension reforms.

France’s prime minister says that the government’s plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 is “no longer negotiable."

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has unveiled a contentious pension overhaul aimed at raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 by 2030 that has prompted vigorous criticism and calls for protests from leftist opponents and worker unions.

Lawmakers in France’s lower house of parliament have adopted a bill that would enshrine abortion rights in the country’s constitution.

French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist government has survived two no-confidence votes prompted by opposition lawmakers to protest the use of a special constitutional power to force the budget bill through the National Assembly without a vote.

Tens of thousands of French workers have taken to the streets across the country, striking for pay hikes that keep up with rising inflation.

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has announced a decision to requisition workers operating petrol depots of the ExxonMobil’s French branch Esso and threatened to do the same for those of Total group, amid strikes that have led fuel pumps to run dry in the country.

Italy’s European Union partners are signaling discomfort and vigilance after one of the bloc’s founding members swung far to the political right.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany is well-prepared to tackle a possible energy shortage due to Russia’s squeeze on European gas supplies.

More than 1,000 firefighters in France are struggling to contain a huge wildfire burning through pine forests.

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has warned that France is facing its “most severe drought” ever recorded and announced the activation of a government crisis unit.

French lawmakers have approved a 20 billion-euro ($20.3-billion) package of measures to help struggling households cope with rising energy and food prices.

French President Emmanuel Macron has welcomed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to his presidential palace for a dinner.

Pressure is mounting on a French government minister to quit over comments stigmatizing homosexuality and LGBTQ people.

The right to abortion in France has been inscribed in law for 47 years and enjoys broad support across the political spectrum.

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne says the government plans to nationalize French electricity giant EDF amid an energy crisis aggravated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

French President Emmanuel Macron has reshuffled his Cabinet in an attempt to adjust to the new political reality following a legislative election in which his centrist alliance failed to win a majority in the parliament.

French President Emmanuel Macron has held talks with France’s main party leaders after his centrist alliance failed to win an absolute majority in parliamentary elections.

France has awakened to an ecstatic Marine Le Pen after her party’s far-right candidates for parliament sent shockwaves through the political establishment.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance is projected to lose its majority despite getting the most seats in the final round of parliamentary elections.

Rape accusations against a newly named French minister have galvanized a movement aimed at exposing sexual misconduct in French politics and encouraging victims to speak out.

A brewing scandal over allegations of rape by a minister in France’s newly named government could taint its first Cabinet meeting on Monday, meant to focus on purchasing power.

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a new Cabinet.

FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday Feb. 24, 2010, a sign is seen at a Carrefour supermarket in Brussels. France's government said Thursday Jan. 14, 2021, it opposes the proposed 16.2 billion-euro ($19.6 billion) takeover of French supermarket chain Carrefour by Canadian convenience store group Couche-Tard. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, FILE)PARIS – France's government says it opposes the proposed 16.2 billion-euro ($19.6 billion) takeover of French supermarket chain Carrefour by Canadian convenience store group Couche-Tard. That follows similar comments by Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire who explained that the country's “food sovereignty” is at stake. “I’m not in favor of such a deal,” Le Maire said on television channel France 5 on Wednesday.