T HREE YEARS ago the French Socialist Party was crushed into irrelevance. The party that supplied two modern ...

The no-confidence vote in Michel Barnier that has toppled his minority government ... Their intention is to force Emmanuel Macron to resign ahead of the French presidential election due in 2027. Both ...

France has one of the highest and longest-standing budget deficits in the eurozone – but attempts to resolve it have already ...

French President Emmanuel Macron is seen on a television screen as he ... the National Assembly, toppling prime minister Michel Barnier during a December budget debate. Barnier's successor Francois ...

EU finance ministers on Tuesday formally approved France's multi-annual budget plan, despite its scaled-back ambitions to rein in the country's ballooning budget deficit this year.

It is not time to celebrate given inflation, conflicts across the world, economic uncertainties and political wait-and-see in ...

François Bayrou comfortably survived his first confidence vote on Thursday, a little over one month after the veteran ...

Storm clouds have hovered over French politics for some time now but it was in the summer of last year that the thunder really began to roll. In July, early parliamentary elections resulted in an ...

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou passed the first test of his new minority government on Thursday as he survived a vote ...

The prime minister runs a minority government, composed of ministers ranging from ex-Socialists to conservatives, which is not based on any formal coalition pact. Faced with the same problem, his ...

His predecessor was thrown out of office after a very short time. So France's new prime minister, Francois Bayrou, is trying ...

His government on shaky ground, Prime Minister François Bayrou offered to reopen debate on the measure, which raised the ...