French Prime Minister François Bayrou comfortably survived his first confidence vote on Thursday, a little over one month ...

An Ifop poll for Le Journal du Dimanche published last weekend suggested a mere 21 per cent of French voters were happy with ...

France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati says the controversial plan to reform the public broadcasting sector will be ...

The no-confidence vote in Michel Barnier that has toppled his minority government was the first since 1962 to oust a French prime minister of the Fifth Republic. 331 MPs from the left and far-right ...

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 ...

According to the results announced by Yael Braun-Pivet, speaker of the French National Assembly, only 131 deputies voted in ...

On Tuesday, after Bayrou’s speech, the centre-left party had threatened to vote ... country still doesn’t have a budget plan ...

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 ...

Bayrou’s olive branch on pension reform appeased the Socialists who said they would be open to negotiations with labour ...

The Socialists, who voted down previous budget proposals in December in conjunction with far-right lawmakers and thereby precipitated the fall of Michel Barnier’s government ... Earlier in the day, ...

If Bayrou were to lose Socialist support, he would find himself in a similar position to predecessor Michel Barnier: reliant on the grace of the far-right National Rally (RN), which could pull its ...

He made the gesture during a speech to parliament after a tumultuous 2024 in which ... precipitating the fall of Michel Barnier’s government, have made concessions on the 2023 pension reform a ...