Faced with rising labor discontent, French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin announced a slight boost in public spending next year in an apparent attempt to woo voters ahead of next spring's ...

PARIS, France --Prime Minister Lionel Jospin has confirmed his presidential candidacy with a pledge to "lead in a different way."Jospin officially said on Wednesday he will challenge incumbent ...

French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin on Monday averted a possible early cabinet reshuffle in a row with his leftist interior minister over unprecedented autonomous powers granted to Corsica.

France's Socialist Party Prime Minister Lionel Jospin stands on increasingly wobbly legs. Social tensions in France have risen sharply and workers' protests against mass redundancies ...

Former French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin says he will not seek the nomination of his Socialist Party to become a candidate in next year's presidential election. Jospin had made a political ...

Chevenment is upset over Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's plans to grant some autonomy to Corsica to reduce separatist violence there. As a defender of France's highly-centralized state, ...

France's Jospin urges energy conservation PARIS, Sept. 11 -- In a bid to appease environmentalists in his own coalition government, French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin announced Monday a massive ...

PARIS — It’s been years since either Bernard Cazeneuve, Dominique de Villepin, Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Lionel Jospin held the office of prime minister in France, but taxpayers are still spending more ...

Lionel Jospin, June 14, 2024, in his Paris apartment. JULIEN DANIEL / MYOP FOR LE MONDE ... France has never been governed by a far-right party under the Republic. In 1940, ...

France most recently had such a government – known as “cohabitation” - when right-wing President Jacques Chirac called snap polls and was forced to appoint a socialist, Lionel Jospin, as ...