• April 17 2025
  InterviewAt Home with the FT

  Sculptor Șerban Ionescu: ‘Paris is New York 2.0’

  Recent moves from Toronto to Brooklyn to Brussels to Paris have only stirred his creativity — and a historic rental in the 11th arrondissement has become a space of vibrant experimentation, and a place to grow

  
• April 15 2025
  French economy

  France risks ‘irreversible’ harm from overspending, PM warns

  François Bayrou urges clean-up of public finances but faces a vote of no confidence if opposition object to budget cuts

  
• April 10 2025
  ReviewFilm

  Holy Cow film review — French cheesemaking drama is the good stuff

  Louise Courvoisier’s debut feature is a boisterous piece of rural realism — with a cast of enthusiastic, extremely convincing non-professionals

  
• April 9 2025
  Fashion

  When American fashion struck out on its own

  A new exhibition and a host of books celebrate the 1940s, the decade when Seventh Avenue declared independence from Parisian couture

  
• April 6 2025
  Marine Le Pen

  Le Pen rages against political ‘witch-hunt’ at Paris rally

  Far-right leader addresses supporters at demonstration after conviction that could ban her from standing for president

  
• April 4 2025
  Q&AThe Big Question

  Will the far right benefit from Le Pen’s conviction?

  Her supporters argue that the French politician’s guilty verdict is an attack on democracy — a strategy that can be successful

  
• April 2 2025
  News in-depthMarine Le Pen

  Marine Le Pen goes on the offensive after 5-year ban

  France’s far-right leader emulates Donald Trump in attacking ‘politicisation’ of judges who found against her

  
• April 1 2025
  ExplainerMarine Le Pen

  French court leaves Marine Le Pen’s political career on the brink

  Far-right leader has limited legal options as ruling fires starting gun on race to succeed Emmanuel Macron

  
• April 1 2025
  Europe Express

  How Marine Le Pen’s guilty verdict split Europe Premium content

  Also in this newsletter: Has the EU become an institutional ‘monster’?

  
• March 31 2025
  Marine Le Pen

  Marine Le Pen banned from standing for office for 5 years

  Far-right leader vows to contest verdict that jeopardises her ambitions to run for French presidency in 2027

  
• March 31 2025
  The FT ViewThe editorial board

  A bombshell judgment on Marine Le Pen

  Banning the far-right leader from standing for office will inflame French politics

  
• March 31 2025
  French politics

  Marine Le Pen’s presidential bid threatened by court ruling

  French far-right leader could be banned from running by judges issuing verdict in EU fraud case

  
• March 29 2025
  European companies

  US tells European companies to comply with Trump’s anti-diversity order

  Move signals push by American president to widen his ideological campaign abroad

  
• March 29 2025
  News in-depthFrench politics

  Cash, tents and a secret vault: Nicolas Sarkozy’s Libya trial

  Former French president awaits verdict in corruption case linked to the late Libyan dictator Muammer Gaddafi

  
• March 29 2025
  Europe Express

  Europe’s future in historical context Premium content

  Knowledge of the past is essential but comparisons between the leaders and events of different eras have their limits

  
• March 29 2025
  Design special

  The secrets of Paris’s most artistic homes

  Guillaume de Laubier’s colourful photographs capture the city as you’ve never seen it

  
• March 29 2025
  Jancis Robinson

  How does Mouton Rothschild stay at the top?

  You need to do everything better every year, says Sereys de Rothschild

  
• March 28 2025
  ReviewVisual Arts

  How the Bloomsbury set brought post-impressionism to Britain

  A fine exhibition at Charleston shows how the group championed the art of Cézanne, Van Gogh and Pissarro

  
• March 28 2025
  Société Générale

  Macron’s top adviser to take senior role at Société Générale

  Alexis Kohler leaves chief of staff job he has held at the Élysée Palace since French president’s election in 2017

  
• March 27 2025
  War in Ukraine

  Europe’s reassurance force in Ukraine to take shape in 3-4 weeks, says Macron

  Military officials from France and UK to travel to Kyiv soon, says French president

  
• March 27 2025
  FT MagazineSimon Kuper

  Can France really lead ‘the little west’?

  As America retreats, Paris dreams of bringing the ‘grande nation’ out of retirement

  
• March 26 2025
  FT Globetrotter

  Paris getaway: the flavours, caves and castles of the Loire

  What to see, do and taste in the wine and food lover’s paradise that’s just over an hour by train from the capital

  
• March 24 2025
  News in-depthNuclear proliferation

  From Berlin to Tokyo, the fears of a new nuclear arms race

  Washington extended an atomic umbrella over its allies. Now some feel it may be time to seek their own weapons

  
• March 21 2025
  FT SeriesWhat does a luxury home look like now? An HTSI property special

  Patrick Seguin turned his Paris apartment into a paragon of Prouvé

  The gallery owner on why great art should always be matched with great furniture

  
• March 19 2025
  Art Basel Hong Kong 2025

  How Picasso became the ultimate prize for China’s new collectors

  In recent years, major works have gone to private buyers in Asia — a new exhibition puts the artist’s relationship with the region in the spotlight