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The president’s refusal to appoint a new PM from the left displays breathtaking arrogance – and undermines our democracy, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday ruled out naming a left-wing government to end the country's political deadlock, saying it would be a threat to "institutional stability".

French police have arrested a man suspected of setting fires and causing an explosion at a synagogue in a southern resort on Saturday in what officials are treating as a terror attack, the country's interior minister said.

On Saturday, the suspect allegedly set fire to two cars in the synagogue’s car park.

Police were on Saturday hunting for a man who, draped in a Palestinian flag, was suspected of setting fires at a synagogue in southern France and triggering an explosion that injured a police officer.

President Emmanuel Macron kicked off negotiations with party leaders on Friday in a bid to resolve France’s political deadlock, which has persisted for more than six weeks since snap legislative elections left the country with a hung parliament.

France will donate 100,000 mpox vaccine doses to countries hit by an outbreak of the disease as it readies vaccination centres at home, outgoing Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said this week.

President Emmanuel Macron launches negotiations with different party leaders this Friday in a latest effort to bring an end to six weeks of political deadlock following snap legislative elections. Macron seems set on forging a broad coalition that would likely include his own defeated centre-right bloc – though whether he…

After weeks of political turmoil that has left France without a government, a recent poll shows President Emmanuel Macron and caretaker PM Gabriel Attal benefitting from a slight uptick in popularity, boosted by a positive start to the Paris Olympics.

The Olympic Games have created an encouraging boost for the Greater Paris region, with a 20 percent year-on-year increase in tourist numbers between 24 and 27 July, according to initial figures from Choose Paris Region – the agency created to attract visitors to the Île-de-France region.

French President Emmanuel Macron has opted to take a back seat during the Olympic Games after weeks of domestic political turmoil, heading to his Mediterranean holiday residence and leaving Prime Minister Gabriel Attal to oversee proceedings in Paris.