A top advisor to French President Emmanuel Macron announced last week that he would quit, causing further chaos for Macron. The top diplomatic adviser Emmanuel Bonne told Macron he was resigning on Friday,

France’s new prime minister has hinted at plans to water down Emmanuel Macron’s controversial state pension reforms...

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

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou has opened the door to renegotiating President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial pension reform. In his general policy speech at the National Assembly, Bayrou expressed his desire to gain support from the Socialist party for the 2025 budget,

Pressure on Emmanuel Macron has increased significantly since Michel Barnier was ousted as Prime Minister after barely three months in the job at the end of last year.

T HREE YEARS ago the French Socialist Party was crushed into irrelevance. The party that supplied two modern presidents—François Mitterrand (1981-95) and François Hollande (2012-17)—and nine prime ministers,

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 consider it in their respective political interests ...

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.

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 unclear outcome because no single party won a clear majority.

France’s Parti Socialiste refused to back a motion of no confidence in François Bayrou’s government. It sold out its left-wing allies for feeble concessions, renewing the party’s dismal record of tailing neoliberal centrists.

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou passed the first test of his new minority government on Thursday as he survived a vote of no-confidence called by the hard left after the centre-left Socialist Party did not back the motion.

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 conservative predecessor,