Michel Barnier’s decision this week to run for the French parliament has sparked a fierce battle for the right to represent ...

PARIS - French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou has to convince opposition Socialist lawmakers in the coming months to tolerate ...

PARIS — The European Union’s former chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier is considering running for France’s parliament in a by-election in Paris.

Despite a public denial of another election, his government is in such trouble that the French president seems tempted by ...

President Emmanuel Macron has been hit by a political storm after his bid to remove two holidays, amid growing concern about ...

By staking out such a maximalist position on the budget, the French PM may be giving himself room to negotiate a deal in the ...

The first thing to understand is that Emmanuel Macron needs to make a success of his state visit to Britain even more than ...

French premier François Bayrou has staked his government’s survival on striking a deal with the Socialist party, betting he ...

The measure most likely to rankle the French was a proposal to scrap two national holidays: Easter Monday and May 8, which ...

France's Prime Minister François Bayrou has proposed cutting two public holidays as part of a 2026 budget proposal to slash ...

The budget would impose sweeping cuts to social programs to free up tens of billions of euros for the ongoing military ...

PM François Bayrou will struggle to get the 44 bln euros of savings in the 2026 budget passed by parliament, meaning the ...