If she wins the presidential run-off on April 24th the status of 5.2m foreigners living in France will be threatened

Macron goes into the second round on April 24th as frontrunner, and with a larger first-round vote than he won five years ago. But he is not assured of victory

President faces tricky act of wooing voters on right and left in France divided in three blocs

President under threat from far-right candidate on April 24th after underwhelming campaign

Election looked set to be a replay of 2017 but the president’s win is no longer a certainty

‘Extremist danger today is even greater than it was a . . . few years ago,’ cautions Macron

Podemos calls for diplomatic response to crisis as Sánchez moves to send weapons

Polls show Macron with a comfortable lead at 28 per cent in the first round, up from 25 per cent last month

French president’s low-key campaign signals second-term adherence to economic reforms

Paris Letter: ‘The invasion of Anglo-American subjects our language to mortal peril’

French conservative candidate ‘crossed Rubicon’ with reference to ‘great replacement’

Broader trends in French society should be working in the left’s favour – but it is failing to take advantage

Poll intended to whittle down number of left and Green candidates in presidential race

Far right and left parties have quietly been dropping their hardest eurosceptic policies

Migrants trying to reach Britain a source of tension between London and Paris for years

Socialist with immigrant roots has tough task to revive party’s post-Hollande fortunes

French president describes incident southern town of Tain-l’Hermitage as ‘isolated event’

‘Parliamentary fiasco’ claims as La République en Marche seeks to raise retirement age

Country-by-country guide to elections that saw modest gains for the far-right in many member states

Election was referendum on French president’s leadership but he limited damage

Ecologist party EELV makes a breakthrough, coming in third ahead of the Socialists and far-left France Unbowed

Ruined Paris cathedral a focus for ‘great national emotion’ as firms pledge funds

Five Star leader Luigi Di Maio’s meeting in Paris likely to increase tensions with France

Eric Drouet is detained in Paris amid clampdown on anti-government movement

Paris Letter: Debate will attempt to ‘take the pulse of the country’ after widespread unrest

In response to yellow vest crisis, president announces boosts to purchasing power

President’s nascent party holds its line on core principle of being ‘viscerally pro-European’

Paris Letter: Sixty years ago, General Charles de Gaulle created the Fifth Republic

French leader accused of undermining the law by failing to refer incident to prosecutors

Sophie Pedder’s new book profiles France’s president as an isolated, gutsy character

French president keen to limit risk of retaliation and preserve Russian relations

The election of Laurent Wauquiez as leader at the weekend was an encouraging sign for a traumatised organisation

Analysis: Lara Marlowe on Emmanuel Macron’s first six months as president

They said it couldn’t be done but the president has completed the first part of his reforms

Mélenchon calls EU flag ‘sectarian emblem’ symbolising Christian origins

Paris keen to keep opponents divided as unions mount lacklustre strike

The tag ‘président des riches’ has stuck in a country that invented the guillotine

President will struggle to make constitutional changes as party wins less than 8% of seats

President lowers sights from 90 to 50 seats, which could endanger his constitutional plans

For Merkel, ‘Macron arrived just in time, like Zorro’, says chancellor’s biographer