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

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.

François Bayrou comfortably survived his first confidence vote on Thursday, a little over one month after the veteran ...

French champagne shipments fell by nearly 10% last year as economic and political uncertainties hit consumers' appetite for ...

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 ...

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 ...

His predecessor was thrown out of office after a very short time. So France's new prime minister, Francois Bayrou, is trying ...

His government on shaky ground, Prime Minister François Bayrou offered to reopen debate on the measure, which raised the ...

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou is expected to lay out in a speech on Tuesday the contours of a deal to water down ...

A top advisor to French President Emmanuel Macron announced last week that he would quit, causing further chaos for Macron.

President Emmanuel Macron picked François Bayrou as France’s new prime minister earlier this month, despite his lack of any ...

Emmanuel Macron has admitted that his decision to ... on the eve of the Paris Olympics backfired spectacularly. Michel Barnier became the shortest-serving prime minister in the French Fifth ...