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

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

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 ...

Largely symbolic, this week’s series of events in the National Assembly nonetheless marks a brief moment of respite for ...

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

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 ...

France's Socialists have cancelled a round of budget talks scheduled for Tuesday evening following controversial statements ...

France's prime minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday warned parliament about his country's spiralling debt and said he was ...

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

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

"The required majority has not been reached, the motion is not adopted," National Assembly President Yael ... to keep concessions his predecessor Barnier had already made, including shelving ...