After tense negotiations, a joint parliamentary committee agreed on a final version of the long-overdue 2025 budget plan.

By Dominique Vidalon and Geert De Clercq PARIS (Reuters) -French Finance Minister Eric Lombard said on Friday that talks on ...

Bernard Arnault, the billionaire boss of the world's biggest luxury conglomerate LVMH, has picked a fight with the French ...

Bernard Arnault, the billionaire boss of the world's biggest luxury conglomerate LVMH, has picked a fight with the French ...

Even if the joint parliamentary committee finds a compromise, there is no guarantee the budget bill will be adopted by the ...

The no-confidence vote in Michel Barnier that has toppled his minority government was the first since 1962 to oust a French prime minister of the Fifth Republic. 331 MPs from the left and far-right ...

Bayrou’s appointment on December 13 came just over a week after his predecessor Michel Barnier’s government was felled by a no-confidence vote proposed by the Left and joined by the far right, after ...

French President Emmanuel Macron nominated Bayrou as France's new prime minister on Dec. 13 after Michel Barnier was ousted in a no-confidence vote. Follow China.org.cn on Twitter and Facebook to ...

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Bayrou’s predecessor Michel Barnier and his Cabinet were toppled on Dec. 4 with a no-confidence vote, two days after Barnier used his discretionary powers to pass the contentious social security ...

But Bayrou's administration remains weak, and still faces an uphill battle to pass the 2025 budget that led to the ouster of his predecessor, Michel Barnier. On Thursday, 131 lawmakers voted in ...

Last month, the government of the former center-right prime minister Michel Barnier fell after only three months, as members of the lower chamber, unable to agree on a budget, punished Mr. Barnier ...