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New Popular Front rocked by purge after being formed this week in threat to Emmanuel Macron

François Bayrou unveils members of cabinet and starts to focus on trying to enact a budget

President Emmanuel Macron and Gabriel Attal select smaller group of ministers in effort to boost faltering reform agenda

Pairs of brothers and sisters are surprisingly common in elite competition

The far right scents an opportunity, the left evokes the spirit of 1936 and liberal democracy is squeezed in the middle

A system designed in the late 1950s is looking increasingly dysfunctional

Energy company has sought tie-ups with the Indian group despite last year’s fraud allegations

The chief risk is not reckless far-right economic policies but a president and prime minister so at odds that chaos follows

At 34, Gabriel Attal is France’s most popular politician but faces a resurgent far right

Creator of the Sweet Valley High young adult fiction phenomenon put books in the hands of a generation of girls