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 ...

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

"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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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France’s first female president could be right-wing Pecresse France’s Republicans picked Valerie Pecresse, head of the economically mighty Paris region, to fight Emmanuel Macron in next year’s ...

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 ...

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 ...