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

PARIS — The European Union’s former chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier will run for a seat in the French parliament in a by-election in Paris.

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

A new political firmness is sweeping Europe: from the “Vienna Conference of European Patriots” warning against Islamist ...

French Prime Minister François Bayrou is to announce the government's 2026 budget priorities on Tuesday. But his savings plan ...

Nearly 21 billion euros comes from limiting social and local government spending growth, with no inflation adjustments for ...

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 ...

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

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

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

French Prime Minister François Bayrou has proposed a broad spending freeze for next year and scrapping two national holidays, putting his political survival on the line to narrow the deficit. In a ...