Ironing out the 2026 budget of the euro zone’s second-largest economy will prove a “demanding” task, French Economy Minister ...

The longtime patriarch of the French far right, Jean-Marie Le Pen, died last month. Yet while the cadaver lies in the ground, ...

France’s prime minister has used special executive powers to get the 2025 budget approved without a vote by lawmakers ...

Prime Minister François Bayrou broke a blockade of opposition parties that had brought down the government of his predecessor by doling out a series of concessions.

COLUMN. Without a complete overhaul of the financing of our social model, France will be unable to regain control of its ...

EDITORIAL. The draft budget for 2025 was definitively adopted on Thursday after six months of procrastination. But the compromise is fragile, and there's good reason to voice frustration.

French Prime Minister François Bayrou used special executive powers on Monday to force his government’s 2025 budget through parliament without a vote. France's hard-left France Unbowed (LFI ...

The signature achievement of Mr. Bayrou’s budget is to bring the French budget deficit to about 5.4% of GDP, down from 6.2% last year. That puts France closer to the European Union’s 3% target—but so ...

France's public finances spiralled out of control last year as a political crisis left four successive governments paralysed ...

PARIS — (AP) — France's government survived a no-confidence vote Wednesday and the country's 2025 budget was finally adopted, ...

President Emmanuel Macron braved strikes and street protests to force through a deeply unpopular reform in 2023 raising ...