The vote clears the way for final approval of France’s 2025 budget, easing concerns about the country’s political turmoil — ...

A month into 2025, France has a dramatic deficit and no budget. Experts say Prime Minister François Bayrou's efforts to win ...

The no-confidence vote in Michel Barnier that has toppled his minority government was ... Three even and antagonist blocs make up today’s National Assembly, the lower chamber that the President cannot ...

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

PARIS - French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou passed the first test of his new minority government on Jan 16 as he survived a vote of no-confidence called by the hard left after the centre-left ...

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Tanguy warned, however, that the RN might still come for Bayrou over his budget for 2025 which is overdue after the previous government of Michel Barnier was toppled over its austerity plans.

“We need the political will to act. This is deadly serious,” said Riekeles, a former advisor to Michel Barnier at the European Commission. “This is about fundamental threats to our ...

But Bayrou's administration remains weak, and still faces an uphill battle to pass the 2025 budget that led to the ouster of his predecessor, Michel Barnier. On Thursday, 131 lawmakers voted in ...

A speaker at the requiem Mass praised Mr. Le Pen, saying he had “perceived, before all others, the dangers that threaten France today ... prime minister Michel Barnier fell after only ...

Theresa May’s chief negotiator was self-assured, fiercely intelligent and several steps ahead of the politicians, writes Michel Barnier, his EU counterpart. He sends sweet text messages and ...

Faced with the same problem, his conservative predecessor, Michel Barnier, was toppled by a no-confidence vote in December after just three months in office. He was brought down by an unholy ...