Successfully steering a deficit-cutting budget for 2025 though a National Assembly splintered into 11 political groups and three mutually antagonistic camps, the centrist prime minister has now ...

S&P Global Ratings put a negative outlook on its assessment of France’s creditworthiness, underscoring enduring uncertainty ...

Michel Barnier, had just crashed out of office, losing a no-confidence vote after being forced to rely on a controversial constitutional measure to push a budget through parliament without a majority.

The New Popular Front alliance looked like the best hope the left had against Macron and Le Pen. But after months of internal ...

Prime minister Francois Bayrou’s centrist minority government was able to force predecessor Michel Barnier’s failed hairshirt budget through the National Assembly without a vote using a ...

PARIS: S&P Global Ratings put a negative outlook on its assessment of France's creditworthiness, underscoring enduring ...

President Emmanuel Macron wants to build up French defence spending as Washington threatens to pull its European security guarantee, but funding those plans as his government struggles to tame an ...

Grospiron spoke after a parade of national and regional political figures, including sports minister Marie Barsacq and Michel ... in 1992 that Barnier helped organize. The French Alps organizing ...

The French government backs extending taxes on the wealthy and aims to mobilize investors amid pressure to boost defense ...

Worldcategory· October 1, 2024 France's Barnier announces targeted tax hikes to plug budget deficit Prime Minister Michel Barnier announced steep public spending cuts and targeted tax hikes for ...

Paris: France is selling bonds just days before Prime Minister Michel Barnier unveils ... in parliament to approve the budget that’s due next week. Barnier will likely have to use constitutional ...