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

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

The Senate has adopted the 2025 health budget, the final chapter in France’s tumultuous months-long budget process that ...

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.

Advertisement Article continues below this ad That may provide France with a budget at last, or send the country into new political and economic turmoil. Bayrou's survival depends on how many parties ...

French Prime Minister François Bayrou used special executive powers on Monday to force his government’s 2025 budget through parliament without a vote. France's hard-left France Unbowed (LFI ...

To me, the headline figure was that 60,000 could be at risk of failing the new language tests, and for some people a failure to pass would mean losing one's right to remain in France. It's worth ...

France faces mounting pressure to implement fiscal reforms as debt payments increase. The independent public audit office ...

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 ...

France's public finances spiralled out of control last year as a political crisis left four successive governments paralysed ...