France could soon legalise euthanasia for the terminally ill after Emmanuel Macron called for a law on a “French model on the end of life” within months.

The French president on Monday pledged to table a draft law on a so-called ‘right to die’ by the “end of summer,” a day after a citizens assembly called for legislation to be changed.

Mr Macron said the bill would build on the work of a group of 184 randomly-appointed French citizens who have debated the issue since December.

In conclusions handed to the French president this weekend, some 76 per cent of the citizen’s council said they favoured assisted suicide in some form.