( The Guardian )- Emmanuel Macron will take power as French president on Sunday and immediately face the twin challenges of European Union reform and loosening strict labour laws in France. After walking up the red carpet to the Élysée Palace on Sunday morning, being briefed on the nuclear...

Centrist French President elect Emmanuel Macron is open to talks with the main conservative grouping, a top aide said Friday, a day after his start-up party included a group of Socialists among his candidates for the coming parliamentary election. Macron, until last year economy minister in...

Germany's most populous state goes to the polls Sunday, with Chancellor Angela Merkel's party aiming to extend a winning streak that could seriously damage her rival before national elections. One in five German voters -- 13.1 million -- will cast ballots in North Rhine-Westphalia, a...

Marine Le Pen needs to learn the lessons from her French presidential election defeat to Emmanuel Macron and accept that her National Front (FN) party must drop its policy of quitting the euro, one of her top aides said Thursday. The European Union was the second most important issue for...