Royal to unveil French manifesto
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France's Socialist presidential candidate, Segolene Royal, is to launch her manifesto in Paris.
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French President Jacques Chirac is expected to announce his retirement from frontline politics on Sunday after a 45-year career that was strong on symbolic gestures but short on concrete reforms.Comment
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy made big promises during his recent election campaign, and a guy named Mustapha Smail plans to tell the world whether he keeps them.
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French socialist Segolene Royal brushes over criticism during her first overseas trip as presidential candidate.
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Queen Elizabeth II is to send a good luck message to the England rugby team ahead of the World Cup final in Paris, Buckingham Palace said Friday.
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Presidential hopeful Segolene Royal launches a manifesto imbued with Socialist values.
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The poll promises to be the main event in next year's political calendar in France.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy is to outline a more assertive role for France on the world stage when he delivers on Monday his first major address on foreign policy since taking office.
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The newly elected French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is to attempt to hammer out a joint Anglo-French position on how to replace the rejected EU constitution when he holds unprecedented joint talks with Gordon Brown and Tony Blair next Tuesday in London.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy's state visit to India next week will focus on civilian nuclear cooperation, defence contracts and deepening bilateral exchanges, the Elysee said Friday.
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Segolene Royal, who tops polls as the Socialist choice to run for French president next spring, formally announced her candidacy Friday.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen is to unveil his presidential platform as the far-right leader trails in the opinion polls.
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Segolene Royal, the socialist politician widely tipped to be her party's candidate in next year's French presidential elections, was set to meet with centre-left counterparts in Spain.
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French centre-right presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy sets out his foreign policy vision.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is due to unveil a host of new measures to regenerate poor suburbs.
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An eagerly awaited new book tracing a year in the life of Nicolas Sarkozy shows the French president as a never-resting, power-hungry statesman with a weakness for sweets and luxury watches.
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Young people can change the world, Mr Sarkozy said The leader of France's governing UMP party, Nicolas Sarkozy, has called for a break with the past in a keynote speech to young party activists.