The Economist did not publish a cover that warned of an apocalypse featuring images of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and ...

On the cover of The Economist magazine a month after he became French president in 2017, Emmanuel Macron was memorably pictured walking on water. Today, after his gamble to call a snap general ...

AFTER OVER a week of trying to square the French political circle, President Emmanuel Macron on December 13th named one of his own as the country’s next prime minister: François Bayrou (pictured).

Mr Barnier needs to keep his coalition of right-wingers and centrists loyal to President Emmanuel Macron together, while keeping the opposition split. The left will be consistently hostile.