Josh MacAlister said the detention of an Iranian national shows the Government’s one-in, one-out migrant returns deal with France is working.

A 1968 migration agreement that allows Algerians to easily obtain French residency should be completely rethought, according to a report by MPs from President Emmanuel Macron’s party.

As the government’s flagship small boats policy sinks into farce, Sean O’Grady considers why migrants would risk a dangerous sea crossing twice rather than claim asylum in France

The French Interior Ministry estimated at 700,000 the number of undocumented migrants in the European country.

Under French law, any sexual act involving violence, coercion, or threat constitutes rape, and Benkired faces a possible life sentence if convicted.

Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are the Don Quixote and Sancho Panza of international politics, the Yin and Yang of European declinism, the clownish poster boys of Western decadence.

Sarkozy’s election marked a generational change for France: Born in Paris in 1955, he was France’s first president with no memory of World War II. A conservative, Sarkozy beat Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal in the election's second-round run-off, thwarting her bid to become France's first woman president.

It is just over three years since a 12-year-old Parisian girl called Lola was raped and murdered in a crime that shocked France. The woman accused of the murder, 27-year-old Dahbia Benkired, is now on trial and on Monday the court heard chilling evidence from a man who encountered the defendant shortly after the death of Lola.