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 ...

From growing concerns about new French language levels for residency cards to how France's budget will affect you and using ...

Budget now finally fully approved, here's a look at the changes in the health and social care part of the finance law - from ...

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 agree to support the motion. He is France’s ...

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 overall deficit is running at around six percent of GDP. The belt-tightening 2025 budget is aimed at getting that down to 5.4 percent. It looks increasingly unlikely that target will be ...

A no-confidence vote is scheduled Wednesday in the National Assembly and needs at least half the 577 votes to pass. Hard-left France Unbowed, Communist and Green lawmakers are expected to vote in ...

COLUMN. Without a complete overhaul of the financing of our social model, France will be unable to regain control of its ...

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 ...