France

Macron’s M51.3 launch from Le Vigilant, days after fresh Kaliningrad nuclear warnings, shows how Moscow’s habit of public ballistic tests and deterrent signalling has become contagious

Croatia’s Mediterranean summit was meant to align nine southern governments before the European Council. The two largest arrive weakened, and one does not arrive at all

A quarter of a million people marched over leaking buildings and missing teachers, as far left and far right move in and the bond market watches the deficit

Berlin tracks the campaigns but will not confront them. France’s VIGINUM service shows what a clearer mandate can do

Emergency stock draw, coordinated by the IEA over four months, follows U.S. pressure to curb rising fuel prices while sanctions on Russia stay in place

Washington wants the EU to release about 120 million barrels over six months to bring down pump prices in the U.S.

Interior minister ⁠Laurent Nunez said that, in some places, troublemakers were moving from school to school to incite violence

Students blockade schools over teacher shortages and overcrowding while government and hard-left leaders trade accusations of violence and repression

This time the alleged author is not a stray local candidate. It is the man Le Pen has promised to install at Matignon

Using Google fines to cut national contributions is a windfall, not a budget strategy

An American pontiff still talks as if Brussels can halt a conflict it does not control. Does he overestimate Europe?

The first U.S. pope decries a crisis of multilateralism - days after Trump attacked the agency and as Washington exits UN bodies for a second time