The target allows for more flexibility than the goal set by the previous government, said Éric Lombard. France's new ...

Bayrou plans to use former Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s budget proposal as a starting point, even though Barnier’s ...

France’s new government aims to squeeze around 50 billion euros ($52 billion) in savings out of the 2025 budget, Finance ...

But finance ministry officials insist it’s just a time-saving move, not an endorsement of Michel Barnier’s plans.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the radical Left party France Unbowed, has vowed to demand a vote of no-confidence as early as ...

PARIS – France’s budget deficit for 2025 “will not be much above 5%,” the country’s budget minister Amelie de Montchalin reaffirmed in an interview published on Sunday with Le Parisien paper. Last ...

France's Constitution prevents new parliamentary elections before July, while Macron has pledged to complete his presidential ...

The new French government gathered for the first time Friday amid efforts to overcome the budget quagmire that toppled the previous administration.

Several tax measures planned for the 2025 budget will not see the light of day, rendering Michel Barnier's 5% deficit target ...

France's manufacturing activity contracted in December at the fastest pace in more than four years, a monthly survey showed ...

OVER the holidays, while exchanging new year greetings with a close friend in Canada – a keen follower of European political theatre – he ...

I am a 60-year-old Scotsman with a penchant for red suspenders, oolong tea and the novels of Walter Scott, so no one will ever accuse me of being an arbiter of cool. But to understand politics and ...