Emmanuel Macron

Explore our coverage of Emmanuel Macron, president of France, including how he aims to modernize France and strengthen its global influence


The Economist reads

The romance and reality of Paris, the Olympics’ host

Five non-fiction books about a city that is both gilded and gritty

Podcast Money Talks

Could political turmoil derail France’s commercial revival?

Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week: the economic fallout from the country’s messy election

Europe

France is desperately searching for a government

Party rivalry threatens deadlock before compromise

Leaders

The French far right may not have peaked

After winning 32% of the vote in parliamentary elections it will eye the presidency

Europe

After a deadlocked election, can anyone govern France?

The country is scrambling to find a new prime minister 

Europe

A shock election result in France puts the left in the lead

But they are well short of a majority; uncertainty looms

International

Trump and other populists will haunt NATO’s 75th birthday party

Threats to Western alliances lie both within and without the club

Europe

Europe faces a new age of shrunken French influence

Sharing power will weaken the federalist president’s sway in Brussels

By Invitation

This needn’t be France’s Brexit moment, says its business envoy

Pascal Cagni explains why foreign investors should not panic 

Podcast The Intelligence

Served him right: Macron’s electoral gamble backfires in France

Also on the daily podcast: Thailand allows same-sex marriage and the agony and technology of penalty shoot-outs

Europe

A crushing blow for Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance

A big turnout for Le Pen’s hard right makes clear the president’s gamble backfired spectacularly

Europe

France heads to the polls in a critical parliamentary vote

Marine Le Pen’s hard-right party is expecting a massive surge

Europe

Emmanuel Macron’s centrists are facing a disastrous first-round vote

Marine Le Pen’s party will be the main beneficiary 

Leaders

Macron has done well by France. But he risks throwing it all away

After the election, populists of the right and left could hobble a centrist president

Business

Is the revival of Paris in peril?

The French election threatens a remarkable commercial renaissance

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