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Marine Le Pen speaks during an interview with Reuters in Paris. In an interview with Reuters ahead of Sunday’s decisive second round, Le Pen reaffirmed she wanted to take France out of the euro and said she hoped the French people would have a national currency in their pockets within two years. REUTERS/Charles Platiau

France Has a Leader, But Not Yet an Opposition

by Megan McArdle | May 10, 2017 | Opinion

When I arrived in France a week ago, many Americans were asking whether this election was going to be the French Brexit, and Marine Le Pen the French Trump. Given the strength of Emmanuel Macron’s lead in the polls, I thought this was the wrong question. France, in...

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French President-elect Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech in front of the Louvre Palace in Paris following his victory in Sunday’s elections. (AFP)

Macron Elected President as France Commits to Europe

by Michel Abu Najm | May 8, 2017 | World

Paris – The French people elected on Sunday centrist Emmanuel Macron, 39, as their new president, to become the youngest head of the republic. The former economy minister emphatically defeated his rival National Front leader Marine Le Pen by a large margin of 65.9...

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People walk across Place de la Concorde on the eve of the French presidential election in Paris, France, May 6, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

France Votes for a New President

by Michel Abu Najm | May 7, 2017 | World

Paris – Amidst tight security measures, French electors will be back to ballot boxes today in the second and decisive round of presidential elections, which will determine the president for the next five years. Emmanuel Macron – highly possible to win – would be...

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French presidential candidates Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron. (AFP)

‘Arab Voice’ in France to Vote for Macron

by Michel Abu Najm and Ulfat Qaddara | May 6, 2017 | World

Paris – French law prohibits carrying out surveys and opinion polls based on race or religion, so it is therefore difficult to reach conclusive results on who Arabs or Muslims will vote for in Sunday’s presidential elections. There are some five or six million...

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Emmanuel Macron, head of the political movement En Marche !, or Onwards !, and candidate for the 2017 presidential election, is pictured through a window of his hotel during a campaign visit in Rodez, France, May 5, 2017. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau

Macron Targeted in Massive Hack, France Warns against Republishing Campaign Emails

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 6, 2017 | World

Leading French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron’s team said on Friday it had been the target of a “massive and coordinated hacking attack” that dumped its campaign emails online barely 24 hours before the election. The centrist candidate’s staff said...