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

France's beleaguered economy was given a boost by the Olympics Games in Paris last summer but political upheaval has ensued ...

French budget negotiations were suspended on Wednesday after Socialist Party leaders withdrew from talks in protest over ...

By Michel Rose and Makini Brice PARIS (Reuters) -French budget talks teetered on the brink of collapse on Wednesday, a day ...

T HREE YEARS ago the French Socialist Party was crushed into irrelevance. The party that supplied two modern ...

To Mr Mélenchon’s consternation, 58 out of 66 Socialist deputies, including their leader, Olivier Faure, refused. They abstained after Mr Bayrou agreed to trim some proposed spending cuts in the ...

Self-assembly is the process by which an organized structure spontaneously forms from individual components, as a result of specific, local interactions among the components. When the constitutive ...

Image — French Prime Minister Michel Barnier attends the debate prior to the no-confidence votes on his administration at the National Assembly in Paris on 4 December 2024. Photo by ALAIN JOCARD/AFP ...

French Finance Minister Eric Lombard has gained support from Brussels for France's deficit-reduction plan, a positive ...

But Prime Minister François Bayrou still has a tightrope to walk to avoid the fate of his predecessor Michel Barnier, who was ...

Michel Barnier. On Thursday, 131 lawmakers voted in favour of the motion - well short of the 288 votes that were needed. "The ...

"We will not censor you (today)," Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure told Bayrou as the debate started at the National ...