17-year-old scandal catches up with Chirac
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Jacques Chirac, the former French president, was today being questioned by a judge over a party financing scandal dating back to when he was the mayor of Paris.
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Clearly the American election is on the mind of the president of France. When President Jacques Chirac stood before his ambassadorial corps on Friday, there was no hint that the relationship between France and ...
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Nicolas Sarkozy and his new flame Carla Bruni have transfixed the world's gossip press for weeks, but the jet-setting romance seems to have backfired among French voters worried their president is taking his eye off the job.
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Former French president Jacques Chirac has refused to testify in a political dirty tricks scandal while he was in office, but a newspaper said Saturday he has been summoned over a separate party financing affair.
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A judge questions French ex-President Jacques Chirac about a scandal dating back to his days as Paris mayor.
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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.
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But behind the scenes, an Anglo-French row was under way, after a British MEP spilled the beans on the murky past of one of President Chirac's political allies.
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A story of love and rivalry  is spicing up the French Socialists' presidential race, with  revealing photos and bedroom gossip fanning the campaign.
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Whether because of his public love life or his economic policies, French voters seem to be souring on their new president
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JÃ©rÃ´me Kerviel told French prosecutors that his fictitious trading started as far back as 2005 â a year earlier than SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale has acknowledged.
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Former French president Jacques Chirac was questioned Thursday by a judge looking into a party funding scam during his time as mayor of Paris, judicial officials said.
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PARIS -- It was easier for 16-year-old Nadia Arabi to remove her Islamic head scarf yesterday than to defy a new law banning religious signs in the classroom, or to risk contempt for breaking a national chain of solidarity for two Frenchmen held hostage by militants in Iraq.
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Dramatic new details of France&#39;s secret dealings with Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime have emerged as part of a fresh corruption investigation into alleged illicit oil deals.
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By our political staff. David Blunkett was hit by more revelations about his private life last night as it was reported that he had an affair with a civil servant nearly 20 years his junior.
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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.
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Washington scandals can sometimes intersect, even when they occur years apart.
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French President Jacques Chirac is hinting that a third presidential run might not be in the cards, but he has not ruled one out.