The Latest Breaking News from Emmanuel Macron

The French government is pressing ahead with its unpopular pensions reform despite huge strikes and protests that paralysed much of the country on Thursday, bringing more than a million people onto the streets. The government says its changes to retirement rules are critical, but unions argue low-income earners will be…

French President Emmanuel Macron unveiled his vision for modernising the military in his nuclear-armed country on Friday, saying 413 billion euros ($446 billion) would be assigned to the army in 2024-2030 – up from 295 billion euros in the previous budget.

France will boost military spending by more than a third in coming years, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday, as he unveiled ambitions to transform the French army to deal with the great "perils" of this century. Acknowledging the end of the "peace dividend" of the post-Cold War era, Macron…

French President Emmanuel Macron is unveiling a military plan Thursday for his nuclear-armed country through the rest of this decade

The official age of retirement is set to rise from 66 to 68 by 2046.

Strikes in protest at plans to raise the French retirement age are unlikely to hurt the country's economy, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Friday, after more than a million people rallied across the country in protest at the planned pension overhaul.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and French President Emmanuel Macron met this week in Paris to talk about ways they can help one another grow the game in France and beyond

Is it one reform too many for Emmanuel Macron? France's president is braving the wrath of the street in what organisers promise is only Day One of the protest movement against his pension reform. A reform he put off during his first mandate because of Covid, but insisted he would…

The over-qualified recruiters for international agencies are banging on Jacinda Ardern's door, writes Jonathan Milne, but she can afford to take her time.

Government's plans have been called 'an aberration' and 'unfair'

More than a million people marched through French cities on Thursday to denounce President Emmanuel Macron's plans to raise the retirement age, with a wave of nationwide strikes halting trains, blocking refineries and curbing power generation.