Full coverage: France

The economic and political situations of troubled France and confident Ireland could not be more different. Or are they?

The French luxury brand’s High Court action against the Irish retailer follows online attention for the similar design of their products.

Generating EU demand for the products of the bloc’s start-ups may be a good place to start, but a lot more is needed to make the European ecosystem less dependent on US venture capital.

Populist leaders claim to solve complex problems with simple solutions. In practice, they sow confidence-wracking uncertainty.

Top Part, run by the Dillane brothers, is being acquired by France’s Autodistribution, a company ultimately controlled by the owner of Autoglass and Moleskin.

Frustrated by the slow pace of investigations in Brussels, critics of Elon Musk’s social network and its influence on politics are targeting X’s Dublin office through their national authorities.

The group owned by the Queally and Browne families exited Elivia last year to focus on the UK instead. It is now clearer what returns it received from France’s number-two beef processor – and why it chose to leave.

Egis makes over €100 million of its €2.3 billion revenue in Ireland. The French engineering group’s CEO Laurent Germain wants to double this and is on the hunt for more Irish acquisitions.

The UK seems to be over the chaos of nationalist rule at the time France faces into its own version of it. Despite the temptation to see this cycle as a one-off, there are reasons to fear the longer-term impact of populist politics, write Thomas Hubert in Paris and Michael Cogley in London.

Candidates in the EU’s second-largest economy have traded barbs on deficits and profligate promises. The Eurogroup president is warning against breaking fiscal rules and adding debt in a high interest rate environment.