Gondolas floated above a cityscape in the southeastern suburbs of Paris on Saturday as officials unveiled the first urban ...

Valerie Pecresse, the conservative nominee for president of France, is struggling in her bid to unseat President Emmanuel Macron. Conservative Valerie Pecresse is struggling in her bid to unseat ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a packed community hall in northern France, Valérie Pécresse, the newly anointed presidential candidate for ...

PARIS (AP) — Valérie Pécresse, the head of the Paris region and a former conservative minister, has been chosen to run in France's presidential race next year as The Republicans party candidate, a ...

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"I'd say I am one-third Thatcher, two-thirds Merkel, meaning I'm a woman who reforms, I'm a woman who directs, I'm a benevolent woman, who respects the French people, who is used to social dialogue." ...

Fifteen years ago, Valerie Pecresse quelled a student uprising over her university reforms with the same blend of consensus-building politics and reformist mettle that she believes will now propel her ...

COULD THE French for the first time elect une présidente when they go to the polls next April? Ségolène Royal nearly got there as the Socialists’ candidate, in 2007, but was defeated by Nicolas ...

“MMMM, A NICE baguette from the Ardennes!” declares Valérie Pécresse, tearing off a chunk of the warm crusty loaf she has just bought at a boulangerie and popping it into her mouth. The centre-right ...

Pécresse shocked bookmakers in December by taking home the right-wing primary – knocking out favourites such as EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier along the way. But aside from being the first woman ...

Gondolas floated above a cityscape in the southeastern suburbs of Paris Saturday as the first urban cable car in the French ...

Valerie Pecresse describes herself as part Angela Merkel, part Margaret Thatcher. She is attempting to unseat French President Emmanuel Macron in April's voting there. But as NPR's Eleanor Beardsley ...