Even if the joint parliamentary committee finds a compromise, there is no guarantee the budget bill will be adopted by the ...

A month into 2025, France has a dramatic deficit and no budget. Experts say Prime Minister François Bayrou's efforts to win ...

Government spokesperson Sophie Primas replied saying that 'everybody must do their bit,' although she conceded that she ...

France’s beleaguered economy was given a boost by the Olympics Games in Paris last summer but political upheaval has ensued ...

French budget talks teetered on the brink of collapse on Wednesday, a day after Socialist party officials suspended their ...

French budget talks were on the verge of collapse on Wednesday, a day after Socialist party officials suspended their ...

The director of the Louvre last week sent a memo to France’s culture minister detailing the dilapidated state of the Paris ...

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

To Mr Mélenchon’s consternation, 58 out of 66 Socialist deputies, including their leader, Olivier Faure, refused. They abstained after Mr Bayrou agreed to trim some proposed spending cuts in the ...

In a significant move this week, French Senators have adopted an amendment to the 2025 budget aimed at stripping former Presidents and Prime Ministers of their perks. The initiative, spearheaded by ...

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 ...