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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The former Socialist Party prime minister, Lionel Jospin, has resurfaced in the French press. After his ignominious third-place finish behind the conservative president, Jacques Chirac, and the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...