PARIS – Michel Barnier, the EU’s former chief Brexit negotiator and briefly serving French prime minister in 2024, has announced his candidacy for a Paris parliamentary seat, seeking to reassert ...

France’s public debt has reached €3.3 trillion, or 114 per cent of GDP, with annual interest payments projected to hit €100 billion by 2029. Prime Minister François Bayrou’s 2026 budget proposes ...

EDITORIAL. The French prime minister unveiled a €43.8 billion plan to begin stabilizing France's public debt on Tu5. For now, it appears to spare big corporations and remains vague about the ...

Michel Barnier, who was the prime minister of France for three months in 2024, will run in a constituency in Paris that ...

François Bayrou does not lack courage - writes John Lichfield. There was something to anger everyone in his extraordinary ...

France's Prime Minister François Bayrou proposes scrapping two public holidays in 2026 to reduce deficit and control €3.3 ...

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou proposed scrapping two national holidays, part of a drastic effort to repair public ...

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

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 ...

Bayrou’s no-spending pledge, healthcare cuts, and plan to axe public holidays set the stage for what may be his biggest political gamble yet ...

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.