Emmanuel Macron is the president of France and one of the most influential ... He was also the first person in the history of the current French Republic to be elected president without support ...

Francois Hollande, the former Socialist president of France who has now ... the programme is much too expensive given the current state of France's finances. It could also set it on a collision ...

British prime ministers past and present were among those ... of state from 1995 to 2007 - making him France's second longest serving post-war president after his immediate Socialist predecessor ...