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French parliament approves bill to roll over budget, avoiding shutdown
PARIS - France's National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, on Monday approved a special law designed to maintain core state...
Dec 17, 20241 min read


Analysis-Macron has a new prime minister but the same old problems
PARIS - When veteran centrist Francois Bayrou, France's new prime minister, was education minister in the 1990s, his plan to increase...
Dec 15, 20243 min read


France's Macron names veteran centrist ally Bayrou as prime minister
PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named Francois Bayrou his fourth prime minister of 2024, tasking the veteran centrist...
Dec 13, 20242 min read


French Socialists repeat call for left-wing PM as Macron seeks coalition talks
PARIS - France's new prime minister should come from the left and any coalition government must commit to pension changes and helping...
Dec 10, 20242 min read


French government faces collapse as left and far-right submit no-confidence motions
PARIS - The French government is all but certain to collapse later this week after far-right and left-wing parties submitted...
Dec 3, 20243 min read


French far-right leader Le Pen stands trial over alleged misuse of EU funds
PARIS - Marine Le Pen, the leading figure of France's far-right National Rally (RN) party, went on trial on Monday accused of...
Oct 1, 20242 min read


Analysis-France's new government is fragile but don't write it off just yet
PARIS - It's a mess, but it might just hold. Despite looking like the most unstable French administration in recent history, despised by...
Sep 28, 20243 min read


France nears new government as Barnier proposes cabinet to Macron
PARIS - France edged closer to having a new government, more than two months after a hung election, as new Prime Minister Michel...
Sep 20, 20242 min read


Factbox-Michel Barnier's first challenges as France's new PM
PARIS - French conservative Michel Barnier, named prime minister by President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday, faces an overflowing in-tray...
Sep 12, 20242 min read


France's Macron hopes to clinch sale of 12 Rafale fighter jets to Serbia this week
PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron expects to seal a deal to sell 12 Dassault-made Rafale fighter jets to Serbia when he visits the...
Aug 29, 20241 min read


France's Macron won't name leftist prime minister, prolonging political crisis
PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron ruled out naming a prime minister from the leftist New Popular Front alliance and will instead...
Aug 27, 20242 min read


Macron's political crisis hurts business morale ahead of Paris Olympics
PARIS - As President Emmanuel Macron welcomes business leaders including Elon Musk to Paris ahead of Friday's Olympic opening ceremony,...
Jul 25, 20242 min read
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