France has officially introduced stricter language and civic requirements for foreigners planning to live long-term or apply ...

France has raised French language proficiency requirements and introduced a mandatory civic exam for certain long-term ...

French children generally spend years learning foreign languages in school, but the results are often dismal. So President Nicolas Sarkozy called Tuesday for an emergency plan to make schools produce ...

Proposal to allow English in French universities irks some France's government wants to allow English to be used more in French universities. This would attract more foreign students and give French ...

A junior interior minister criticized the naturalization of George Clooney and his family despite the actor's limited French, ...

The Parti Quebecois is leading the polls for next month's provincial election in Canada. If they win a majority, they intend to tighten Quebec's already established language laws. NPR's Arun Rath ...

There has long been an ambivalent relationship between France and the Holy Land, between French and the Jewish State. Killings in a kosher market in Paris only add to that ambivalence... Between those ...