For the French president, who in his New Year's Eve address called for 'getting a grip collectively' and for 'more work and more innovation,' reinventing himself is difficult in a country mired in ...

France was plunged into a political crisis last summer when snap parliamentary elections, called by President Emmanuel Macron, failed to produce a decisive result, with both far-left and far-right ...

The speech caps a tumultuous 2024 for Macron, who shocked the nation in June by unilaterally calling snap elections after the far right National Rally trounced his centrist bloc in the European polls.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. French President Emmanuel Macron leaves after inaugurating the WHO Academy campus which promotes lifelong ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday said he recognised that his decision to call early parliamentary elections in June had created more political instability in the country, in a rare ...