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PARIS — President François Hollande stunned France on Thursday when he announced that he would not run for a second term in next year’s presidential election. In a televised address from the Élysée Palace, Mr. Hollande said that he was “aware of the risks” of a candidacy that would not “rally” enough people to it. “I have thus decided not to be a candidate in the presidential elections,” Mr. Hollande said. Mr. Hollande, a Socialist, ended weeks of speculation about his intentions to participate in a re-election bid that few observers thought he could win. He has had some of...

Following Barry’s lead, French President Hollande has come down firmly in the anti-Trump camp. He finds The Donald’s "hurtful and humiliating comments" to be retch worthy. Which is perhaps not all that significant as the French are known for their delicate constitution, having come by the somewhat disparaging “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” appellation the old fashioned way - they earned it.All I know is if it comes down to a knife fight between the erudite, cunning François Hollande and the man who wants to make America great again, I’m going with The Donald. I get the impression that Hollande is one...

After the latest Paris terror attack, French President Hollande swore he’d go after radical Muslims who pulled off the mass slayings. Now, we’re learning what he meant by that. As HotAir reports: “[T]he French have kicked in the doors on 2,235 homes and taken 232 people into custody or placed them on house arrest.” In the sleepy French town of Lagny-sur-Marne, just 18 miles from Paris …French police went to the local mosque where they found: The Salafist mosque in Lagny-sur-Marne, about 30km east of the French capital was closed down by police on 2 December. In subsequent raids the...