Pressure is mounting on France’s Prime Minister François Bayrou after a former teacher at a Catholic school claimed he failed ...

A planned two percent tax on the very wealthiest members of society in France has passed its first reading in the National ...

France’s state-owned electricity firm EDF said Friday it had decided to write down the value of its stake in a major US ...

If you live in France and receive a gift of cash, shares or property from a member of your family, you may be liable to pay ...

Because if you read The Local’s word of the day consistently, you’ll see we use this word quite a lot. What does it mean? Argot - roughly pronounced are-go - is a French word you might hear when ...

French police will start random searches for knives and other weapons concealed in bags at and around schools in a bid to ...

President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday evening that France was entering a "new era" three years after Russia invaded ...

From paying attention to your French friends' mistakes and how speaking French might make your English worse to France's ...

France's Senate on Thursday backed a bill to ban undocumented immigrants from getting married in France as the government ...

France's parliament on Thursday voted to limit the production and sale of some items containing polluting and ...

From the high-stakes conclusion of Marine Le Pen's embezzlement trial to the end of the school winter holidays and a higher ...

Prison ferme - roughly pronounced pree-zon ferrm - translates precisely as ‘closed prison’. To some, it might also look like ...