Yet under the French Fifth Republic, introduced by Charles de Gaulle in 1958, until this year the French had never re-elected a sitting president who had a parliamentary majority. Why is it so ...

When French President Emmanuel Macron came to ... risking political fallout that could stretch the Fifth Republic beyond the limited elasticity of its president-centred constitution.

Turns out, having both is critical to the structure of the French government ... was established under the Constitution of ...

the first president of the French Fifth Republic. "I believe that NATO has lost in this conflict, because neither NATO nor the West is able to continue the war," de Gaulle told TASS on the ...

France, which is one of the leaders of the European Union and the only country in continental Europe with nuclear weapons, has consistently pursued a policy of undermining Russian influence in the ...