France has a retirement age lower than many of its European neighbors, but many French people view an early retirement as sacrosanct. It was part of the social contract developed at the end of World ...

Europe once had outstanding global political figures like [Charles] de Gaulle, [François] Mitterrand, [Jacques] Chirac. In Germany, there was Willy Brandt, [Helmut] Kohl — and I would put Schröder in ...

A new exhibition at Louvre Abu Dhabi is exploring a thousand years of African history through the lens of the continent’s ...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is to be fitted with en electronic tag for a year after being found guilty of ...

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron has picked one of his closest allies to lead France’s highest constitutional ...

President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to live forever is getting panned—and may be headed for court ...

Partnering with JEC Group, the Alliance will lead the European flax and hemp industry exhibit. Bcomp, Demgy, Depestele, ...

The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi offers an immersive journey into the traditions of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups, ...

With music we hope we can take something that was very bad, to join the cultures of Africa and Europe and make something ...

The European Flax-Linen & Hemp and nine of its members are exhibiting a range of flax and hemp fiber materials, services and ...

François Mitterrand gave the Louvre its distinctive glass pyramid; Georges Pompidou built an art center with an unusual glass-tube escalator crawling up its outside; Jacques Chirac opened a Paris ...