Ironing out the 2026 budget of the euro zone’s second-largest economy will prove a “demanding” task, French Economy Minister ...

Prime Minister François Bayrou broke a blockade of opposition parties that had brought down the government of his predecessor by doling out a series of concessions.

France’s prime minister has used special executive powers to get the 2025 budget approved without a vote by lawmakers ...

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou will use special constitutional powers to pass the 2025 budget on Monday, triggering a crucial no-confidence vote later this week that will decide whether his ...

The longtime patriarch of the French far right, Jean-Marie Le Pen, died last month. Yet while the cadaver lies in the ground, ...

President Emmanuel Macron braved strikes and street protests to force through a deeply unpopular reform in 2023 raising ...

The signature achievement of Mr. Bayrou’s budget is to bring the French budget deficit to about 5.4% of GDP, down from 6.2% last year. That puts France closer to the European Union’s 3% target—but so ...

EDITORIAL. The draft budget for 2025 was definitively adopted on Thursday after six months of procrastination. But the compromise is fragile, and there's good reason to voice frustration.

"At this stage the talks are ongoing. We do not wish for France's budget to be taken hostage," Primas told reporters after a meeting of the French ministerial cabinet. Sign up here. Arab countries ...

French lawmakers on Thursday will try to reach a budget compromise that can get enough support to avert another government collapse and restore financial certainty for the country. A handful of ...

After running on an extension of the 2024 budget for more than a month, France is finally set to have a formal 2025 budget after Prime Minister François Bayrou forced the text through parliament ...

PARIS (AP) — The head of France’s far-right National Rally party said Tuesday he doesn’t support a no-confidence motion filed against the government, making it more likely that the prime minister will ...