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Energy workers in France threaten power cuts over retirement age

France’s energy union has threatened mass power cuts over Emmanuel Macron’s plans to raise the retirement age after months of violent street protests. The powerful CGT union has already cut power to an airport and school that the president was visiting this month.

A Virgin Mary statue in a public square in France

The state of religion in France

Sacred Nation
French President Emmanuel Macron celebrates with supporters in front of the Eiffel Tower Paris, France

To Europe’s relief, France’s Macron wins, but far-right gains

Elections
A screen shows French President Emmanuel Macron and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen at her election day headquarters, in Paris

French duel: Macron vs Le Pen fight for presidency

Elections
Posters of French President Emmanuel Macron and centrist candidate for reelection in Saint Pee sur Nivelle, southwestern France

Ukraine and COVID give Macron a boost in the polls ahead of French elections

Elections
France's President Emmanuel Macron wore flower leis and seashell necklaces as he arrived at the Manihi Atoll, 312 miles northeast of Tahiti, French Polynesia, in the Pacific Ocean, July 26, 2021. 

French Polynesia and New Caledonia see deadly COVID-19 surge

COVID-19

The situation is so dire that recently, France extended a health emergency declaration for the two Pacific Island territories into mid-November.

Blue, white and red French flag fleets in Nice, southeastern France, Tuesday, March 19, 2013.

France’s far-right leverages generals’ warning of ‘civil war’ ahead of elections

Global Politics

The letter was largely cast off as an outlandish stunt filled with baseless claims — until the far-right saw it as an opportunity.

French and European Union flags fly at entrance to France's top elite school.

France’s top elite school closes in quest for diversity

Education

In April, French President Emmanuel Macron ordered the closure of L’Ecole Nationale d’Administration, with plans to “to build something better.” But will its replacement be more of the same by a different name?

A man wearing a blue shirt leans his body over a coffin draped with the Algerian flag in a room full of coffins.

French report reignites debate about colonialism in Algeria

History

Like the US, France is navigating political disagreements about its history and their relationship to modern issues of race.

French President Emmanuel Macron stands at a podium with French flag behind him.

French Muslims worry ‘separatism law’ may create more division

Sacred Nation

French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed “separatism law” would, among other things, monitor international funding coming into French mosques, crack down on online hate speech and create a special certificate program for French imams.