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President’s gaffes stoke concern over his age as election campaign against his presumptive opponent – also advanced in age – picks up

Faced with war and the threat of Trump, Ursula von der Leyen and others should study the legacy of modern Europe’s architect, says Paul Taylor of the Friends of Europe thinktank

Champion of the European Union’s single market and currency whose vision of a centralised, federalist bloc found less favour

He confirmed himself as manifestly unfit. Those who gave Britain such a leader should carry the shame of it to their graves, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

After recovering from being shot by police in 1983, Toumi Djaïdja led a protest historians say must be written into the nation’s narrative

French President Emmanuel Macron looked to cement his legacy, and take on political opponents, with the inauguration on Monday of a former royal palace that has been dedicated to the French language, deep in far-right heartland.

The day after the barbaric attacks by Hamas on Israel, the EU’s Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, Oliver Varhelyi of Hungary, announced the suspension of aid to the Palestinians. He was soon rebuffed by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, and…

France’s current constitution is its fifth, and it’s built for stability – literally. Established in 1958 after the government collapsed in the throes of the Algerian War, the new constitution featured a president with considerable powers. That made the country’s governments more stable – a welcome change from the Third…

French President Emmanuel Macron has declined to condemn the country’s top police chiefs for appearing to suggest officers were above the law, seeking to stave off unrest among security forces wearied by repeated bouts of street violence. Critics, however, lament a missed opportunity to reassert the state’s authority over an…

Emboldened by united trade unions, the tug of war between the street and the government over Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform had mostly taken on the form of strikes and demonstrations since mid-January.

Liz Truss’s short-lived government presided over an even shorter-lived economic experiment in “Trussonomics”. As investors responded to September’s mini-budget by demanding higher interest premiums to purchase UK debt, the government was unable to execute its plans. Truss was reduced to a helpless bystander as her new chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, started…