Ditching the premier has seldom worked as a route to political revival in France. The next day, the country went on lockdown. Browse The Independent’s complete collection of articles and commentary on French Politics.
Wednesday, 1 July, 2020. In 2019, France ranked as the world’s seventh largest … Protest politics in the form of partisan dealignment and the fragmentation of both parties and voters has continued in 2019. The demonstrations left 11 protesters and police dead and more than 4,000 injured, according to the French government. For the latest forecasts on the economic impacts caused by the coronavirus pandemic, please consult the OECD Economic Outlook Interim Report Coronavirus: the world economy at risk (March 2020) and the IMF's policy tracking platform Policy Responses to COVID-19 for the key economic responses from governments..
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe's office said an investigation would be held into the alleged misuse of public funds by environment minister Francois de Rugy."Young people should speak up and hold adults accountable in the combat against climate change," said activist Greta Thunberg on receipt of Normandy's first Freedom Prize.The first round of the French local election was maintained despite the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. A poll puts him neck and neck with Macron's official candidate, Benjamin Griveaux.French President faces difficult task to satisfy expectations of yellow vest movement Entitled 'Passions', the book spans from his debut in politics back in the 1980s to his first day at the Elysee Palace in 2007.A probe is set to be launched into allegations police officers racially abused a man during an arrest in a deprived Parisian suburb on Sunday morningEuronews' Road Trip Europe has crossed a second border- from Spain to France, where the road trip team will be listening to more of your voices.French nationalist leader Marine Le Pen is hoping she and Italian deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini can form a new supergroup of MEPs after European Parliamentary elections in May.Unreported Europe hears that unemployment, corruption and frustration are fueling the rise of the right in the French city of Hénin-Beaumont.A new draft law could see the restitution of resources and assets to dispossessed people in Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere. The debate has become toxic in many parts of the country, where tensions run high between residents worried about their health, and farmers concerned about their future.Labour union CGT said on Thursday there would be no break in transport strikes over the Christmas period unless the government backed down on pension reform.France's culture minister wants people in France to "say things in French".Seven MPs from his LREM party defected to create a new parliamentary group they said would be "independent" and sit "neither in the majority nor in the opposition".He marked French politics with his snappy comments.