France’s lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, is voting on a bill to allow adults with incurable illness to take lethal medication for legal end-of-life options.

FILE - Police vans park outside the National Assembly during the second round of the legislative elections in Paris, Sunday, July 7, 2024. France’s far right leader Marine Le Pen says the ...

In an interview Thursday July 11, 2024 with France Inter broadcaster, Binet has called for massive protests against what she says is President Emmanuel Macron's denial of legislative elections ...

The National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament, is deeply fractured, with no single party holding a majority. It comprises three major blocs: Macron’s centrist allies, the left-wing ...

The French Constitution of 1946 gave almost all executive as well as legislative powers to the National Assembly. Since then it has been almost impossible for a French government to do anything ...

France's government has been toppled by a no-confidence vote in parliament, for the first time sine 1962. Prime Minister Michel Barnier served the shortest time in the post in France's modern history.

Pick up your pencils, French lawmakers. It’s time for your first test. The 577 newly elected members of the National Assembly will descend on Paris together for the first time Thursday to choose a new ...

To recap, Mr. Macron called snap legislative elections in June to try to embarrass Marine Le Pen’s insurgent-right National Rally after she’d won big in European Parliament elections.

France’s lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, is voting Tuesday on a bill to allow adults with incurable illness to take lethal medication, as public demands grow across Europe for ...

As public demands grow across Europe for legal end-of-life options, the National Assembly vote on Tuesday is a key legislative step on the long-debated issue.. The bill was approved by 305 votes ...