Nicolas Sarkozy took a further step on the road to his political comeback over the weekend, as he won back the leadership of France’s cent...

Nicolas Sarkozy has been detained for questioning by the French judicial police this morning, over allegations of influence-peddling ( tra...

Three days ahead of the European Parliament elections in France, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has written a bombshell piece on ...

Yesterday was a big night for Marine Le Pen's anti-EU Front National, which emerged as the main winner of the first round of the Frenc...

If true, this is quite extraordinary. Fabrizio Goria - business and finance correspondent of the Italian online news site Linkiesta - ...

As we reported in our daily press summary , European Commission President José Manuel Barroso has drawn criticism from the French governme...

Italian daily La Repubblica had an interesting story over the weekend. Apparently, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and his team are t...

Sunday will be a big day in EU politics: both the Greeks and the French go to the polls. Ahead of the French elections, we've publishe...

La Repubblica yesterday claimed that Italian PM Mario Monti sees opportunity in a Francois Hollande victory in the French Presidential el...

Here's a game for you. Guess who said the following:  11 March (part one) "We can't leave the management of migratory flo...

As has been widely reported, Francois Hollande - the socialist contender for the French Presidency - gave a major speech yesterday. Unsurp...

The first round of the French presidential elections took place yesterday . As expected, the contest for the keys to the Elysée will  be b...

*Update 15:30* - It seems after a quiet morning, the predictable fightback has begun in the battle over the ECB, and its a double whammy. F...

EU relations have become a pretty substantial source of contention in the French Presidential race. Socialist candidate Francois Hollande ha...

“I am not dangerous” said a grinning Francois Hollande as he arrived in London yesterday. The Socialist frontrunner to the presidency is...

Nicolas Sarkozy officially announced his candidacy for re-election during a televised appearance broadcast on TF1 last night. The decision h...

Antonis Samaras (see picture), the leader of Greece's centre-right New Democracy party, has made people in Athens, Brussels and elsewher...

Socialist candidate François Hollande (see picture) has begun to flesh out what his pledge to renegotiate the new European fiscal treaty on ...

In a debate with Francois Hollande and François Bayrou, a youthful Nicolas Sarkozy calls the Tobin Tax an “absurdity”. You heard that right....

The politics of the eurozone crisis took several new twists and turns over the weekend, including the news that Angela Merkel intends to st...