He was among France’s most unpopular presidents when he left office. So low were his approval ratings at the end of his mandate in 2017 – just 3 per cent wanted him to run for re-election – that ...

PARIS – Francois Hollande has always been an unlikely French president, a guy proud to call himself "normal" and who ended up in the Elysee Palace almost by default. Perhaps the most presidential ...

The man who ruled France from 2012 until 2017, still a Socialist Party heavyweight, celebrates the suspension of the pension ...

UNITED NATIONS—World leaders gathered for the annual United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, focusing on the war in Syria as an international disgrace, while calling terrorism and the flow of ...

Most of the world now knows François Hollande as the man who won France’s May 6 presidential election, and in so doing made incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy the nation’s first single-term head of state in 31 ...

PARIS --French President Francois Hollande announced Thursday that he would not seek a second term in next year’s presidential election, saying he hoped to give his Socialist party a chance to win ...

Proudly tough on crime when he was in government, Sarkozy now has to adjust to the strict constraints of hours and days ...

PARIS—French President François Hollande met with J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive James Dimon in late October and asked how France could lure finance jobs away from London after Brexit. Mr.

PARIS --French President Francois Hollande doesn't look like a man who spends 10,000 euros ($11,000) a month on his hair. Yet the deeply unpopular Socialist leader, who was elected on a populist ...

France‘s President François Hollande embarked on his first full state visit to the U.S. this Monday. Despite excited talk of a “renewed alliance” between the two countries and a full raft of issues to ...

SINCE France’s fifth republic began in 1958, no president in good health has ever failed to stand for re-election. Yet last night that is what François Hollande decided to do. “I have served the ...