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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

If France didn’t have enough to worry about right now with its soaring rates of debt, crime and immigration, now comes news ...

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

Prime minister is searching for €40 billion in savings from the upcoming budget, which could see tax bands frozen ...

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