D’abord membre du parti socialiste (SFIO) de Guy Mollet, Michel Rocard fut l’un des fondateurs du Parti socialiste unifié (PSU) opposé à la guerre d’Algérie ; puis candidat de ce parti à l’élection ...

PARIS – French authorities say former Socialist Prime Minister Michel Rocard has died at age 85 in a Paris hospital. French President Francois Hollande issued a statement Saturday regretting the loss ...

Une figure de la gauche, et de la vie politique, s'en est allée. Les réactions, après le décès de Michel Rocard, ce samedi, à 85 ans, sont unanimes. Tous saluent un homme de gauche réformateur et au ...

File photo of French Prime Minister Michel Rocard (R) who greets British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to attend a meeting at the Hotel Matignon in Paris, France, June 10, 1988. REUTERS/Charles ...

PARIS — Michel Rocard, a former French prime minister who embodied a pragmatic, market-friendly element in the Socialist Party, but whose reformist zeal encountered powerful countercurrents on the ...

Michel Rocard was one of the great “might have beens” of politics. To say this is to take nothing away from his accomplishments, which were real, but simply to underscore the fact that he never ...

Sur un chemin brumeux de campagne, Michel Rocard, tout sourire, est vêtu d’un imperméable clair trop grand pour lui, de chaussures de randonnées aux lacets rouge qui ne collent pas avec le reste de la ...

THE left wing of the French Socialist Party was still reeling this week after the shock eviction of Arnaud Montebourg, a populist industry minister, and his replacement by Emmanuel Macron, a former ...

Former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard went to Iran for a private visit, not at the request of President-elect Francois Hollande, according to a Socialist lawmaker. Rocard was received yesterday ...

Former French Socialist prime minister Michel Rocard, hailed a "visionary statesman", died Saturday aged 85 his son Francis told AFP. Rocard served as prime minister for three years from mid-1988 ...

Michel Rocard, who served as prime minister of France under President Francois Mitterrand and was a leader of the nation’s Socialist Party, has died at age 85, the president’s office said Saturday. A ...