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Spain defeated France 2-1 on Tuesday to reach the Euro 2024 final, their first at a major tournament for 12 years. They will face the Netherlands or England. Spaniard Lamine Yamal became the youngest-ever player to score in a Euro at just 16 years old.
Riots have broken out in Paris with protesters seen burning bikes and setting off smoke bombs after an unexpected far right defeat.
French politicians and world leaders reacted to the results of parliamentary elections on Sunday after a coalition of the French left that quickly banded together to beat a surging far right won the most seats in parliament but not a majority. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he was "happy" and called the result a "disappointment" for Moscow.
France's New Popular Front has won the largest number of seats in the final round of snap parliamentary elections, leaving behind the remnants of President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist camp and the far-right National Rally trailing in third place. It’s a staggering result for a closely fought election that has left the country without a clear candidate for prime minister – and the hastily assembled broad leftist coalition without an absolute majority that would allow it to push through its ambitious programme.
Whatever the outcome, Macron's 7-year political experiment with pro-business policies aimed at boosting the economy and reforming the bloated welfare state will be dented. He has ruled out resigning.
The country has been shaken by the prospect of the far-right takeover, as the National Rally leader flirts with the center ground.
Assumptions that Giorgia Meloni and Marine Le Pen would find common ground may be wrong.
Whatever the result of France's election, its impact will be seismic, says Europe editor Katya Adler
The “clarification” President Emmanuel Macron invoked as he called France’s snap elections has clarified this much: that French voters no longer want him to govern alone – or indeed at all. Exactly who he should share power with remains an open question after an inconclusive first round that has handed Marine Le Pen’s far right a commanding win, but not yet a decisive one.
Squeezed by the far-right National Rally party and the left, President Emmanuel Macron faces a country that may prove ungovernable.
Many expressed shock that Marine Le Pen’s nationalist party was so close to power after the first round of a snap election.
The overconfident president got what was coming when his party suffered a massive defeat in the first round of the national election
Hundreds of protesters have set off flares and started fires on the streets of a major European city after a far-right party won big gains.
The right-wing National Rally is projected to top the first vote - but all is still to play for.
Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigrant National Rally led a first round of voting on Sunday in exceptionally high-stakes elections that could put France’s government in the hands of a far-right party for the first time since World War II. President Emmanuel Macron’s ruling coalition was beaten into third place by a fledgling alliance of the left as the incumbent’s gamble with a snap election backfired spectacularly.
Runaway budget deficits and confrontation with Brussels and Berlin is a formula for trouble
With a charismatic blend of youthful vigour and strategic communication, far-right leader Jordan Bardella has captivated millions on social media, a sign of the "Bardella mania" that has swept through France’s younger demographic. At just 28, Bardella's ascent to the top of the National Rally party formerly led by Marine Le Pen and Macron's call for snap legislative elections may well pave the road to the prime minister's office.