Emmanuel Macron

French politics have been in gridlock since an inconclusive snap election earlier this month, with parties in the National Assembly scrambling to put together a governing coalition and no successor to Attal in sight

Exit polls for the final round of France’s snap parliamentary election suggest voters have delivered an emphatic “non” to Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally, but only a hesitant “maybe” to her rivals on the left and in the center.

Marine Le Pen's party National Rally has registered a resounding victory in the first round of th country’s snap parliamentary elections, dealing a big blow to French President Emmanuel Macron.Le Pen's far-right party is likely to win about 34% of the votes while Macron's centrist Renaissance party and its allies would clinch about 22 percent.

French voters are turning out in large numbers for the first-round legislative elections, with turnout unusually high at 59 percent and three hours remaining.

France was one of seven nations instructed by the EU Commission to start a so-called "excessive deficit procedure", the first step in a long process before any member state can be hemmed in and moved to take corrective action

President Emmanuel Macron’s shock announcement of a snap election sparked a rout that wiped off about $258 billion from the market capitalization of French firms last week.

It is Prime Minister Modi's first foreign trip after assuming office for a third time this month.

Macron is expected to explain his shocking decision to dissolve the National Assembly, France's lower house of parliament, that has triggered an early legislative election to take place three weeks after the far-right National Rally party of Marine Le Pen triumphed at the election for the European Union Parliament

France's 10-year bond yield jumped 6.5 basis points (bps) to 3.304% after surging 12 bps a day earlier, its biggest one-day jump in 11 months as the new election raised concerns about already fragile public finances, analysts said

Here is what the parliamentary elections could mean for France.

The euro fell to $1.0764, its lowest since May 9, in early trading in Asia. It was last down 0.24% at $1.0776 as investors weighed the implications of renewed political uncertainty in the euro zone's second-biggest economy in a key election year.

The visit will be watched as a checkup on the health of the German-French relationship that drives EU policymaking, at a time of major challenges for Europe

Following is a transcript of French President Emmanuel Macron’s interview with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait.

“Dealing as Europeans means you need consolidation as Europeans,” Macron said in an interview with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait on the sidelines of the Choose France investment summit in Versailles near Paris.

The leaders also called for the "concrete implementation" of a two-state solution in Israel and "condemned" Israel's policy of settlement-building in the West Bank.

Xi is in Paris on a state visit before heading to Serbia and Hungary in his first trip to the bloc in five years. He is hoping to convince Europeans that Beijing offers an economic opportunity despite warnings from officials in Washington about the risks.

From Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to France and former Starbucks CEO's advice to the company to South Korea's illegal short sellers, here's a look at some of the major developments from across the world.

Xi is making a state visit to France marking 60 years of diplomatic relations between France and China. The trip is his first to Europe since 2019 and will also see him visit Serbia and Hungary later in the week.

Some 20 European leaders gathered in Paris on Monday to send Russian President Vladimir Putin a message of European resolve on Ukraine and counter the Kremlin's narrative that Russia is bound to win a war now in its third year.

It did not release specific details about the agreement, to be signed at the Elysee presidential palace.