Main image: Rightwing populist parties are now attracting women. Composite: The Guardian Design Team It was a chastening lesson for any woman tempted to join the cut and thrust of rightwing populism. After Corinna Miazga was elected to the German pa...
A serial rabbit-killer who has been spreading terror around a picturesque village in Brittany has struck again. Police were called after the bodies of seven rabbits were discovered slaughtered and dumped on the ground at a home in the village of Min...
French investigators call them the “gangster-jihadists” – young men, often from poor immigrant backgrounds, who start with petty crime, drug dealing and robbery and graduate to terrorism. They exist under the radar of the intelligence services or a...
The French government has suspended plans to introduce an eco-fuel tax after three weeks of increasingly violent protests across the country. Bowing to pressure from the street, the prime minister, Édouard Philippe, also announced an immediate freez...
Despite a backdrop of riots against high fuel levies in France, European commission data shows that taxes on all petrol products have actually fallen in the last two years across the eurozone. The level has fallen from almost 70% of the cost for con...
‘Casse-toi, pauv’ con!’ was a phrase that went viral after being uttered by the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008, to a man who refused to shake his hand. An exact translation is difficult, but the sense is something along the lines o...
When the French president, Emmanuel Macron, surveyed the damage at the Arc de Triomphe after the worst violence in central Paris for over a decade, street-cleaners had tried to diligently scrub away graffiti saying: “Macron resign.” They needn’t hav...
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Vandalised cars and graffiti on the streets of central Paris, after a day of clashes between riot police and gilets jaunes protesters, who are demonstrating against rising oil prices and living costs • Paris riots: Macron to hold emergency meeting...
More than 90 people have been injured in the French capital after police used teargas and stun grenades on thousands of protesters who converged on the Champs Élysées, in the latest eruption of anti-government sentiment. The gilets jaunes (yellow ve...
Hospitals are rarely places of cheer and creativity, but the former Saint-Vincent-de-Paul hospital in Paris’s 14th district is one of the most exciting places on the left bank. Former ambulance bays and car parks now house allotments, a boules court...
Police used teargas and water cannon against protesters in central Paris as similar ‘yellow vests’ demonstrations took place around the country Main image: A protester holds a French flag as teargas swirls in front of the Arc de Triomphe in Par...
Police fired teargas and used water cannon to disperse protesters in Paris who are angry over rising fuel costs and President Emmanuel Macron's economic policies, the second weekend of 'yellow vest' protests that have caused disruption across France...
Clashes broke out between crowds and police on the Champs Élysées in the second weekend of demonstrations Violence erupted on the Champs Élysées on Saturday as police clashed with “gilets jaunes” (yellow vests) protesters reportedly infiltr...
The Irish President-elect Michael D Higgins has attended the Armistice Day centenary commemorations at Dublin’s Glasnevin Cemetery to pay tribute to the memory of the Irish men and women who died in the first world war. In his speech he said that th...