France’s new prime minister has hinted at plans to water down Emmanuel Macron’s controversial state pension reforms ...

Since Macron appointed Michel Barnier as prime minister in September ... €4bn for public broadcasting and €700m for media, books and cultural industries. This means the state’s overall ...

Remember 2023 when the French were rioting over plans to raise the pension age from 62 to 64? It seemed like the matter was ...

By Loukis Skaliotis Recently the Cyprus Mail was warning that the government budget was pushing the public sector wage bill ...

French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Bayrou as French prime minister this month, after the National Rally and the New Popular Front coalition joined forces to topple Michel Barnier’s government ...

Matein Khalid “O liberty, what crimes are committed in your name!”. So lamented a Girondist noblewoman as she gazed at the guillotine ...

News that Jean-Marie Le Pen — one of the founders of France’s extreme rightwing political party, the National Front — died on ...

A poll this week in France found that 78 per cent of respondents are in favour of proscribing the wearing of Muslim ...

Macron appointed the center-right Michel Barnier as prime minister in September with the goal of quickly passing an austerity budget to rein in France’s growing fiscal deficit. By early December ...

Even more crucially, Bayrou has so far been unable to extend his narrow base of support in France’s fragmented legislature — something he will need to accomplish to avoid the fate of his predecessor ...

A 'builder' or a 'repairer'? The new prime minister is putting the center's ability to embody the government at stake, at a time when the right and the left are dreaming of revenge, writes Le ...

The veteran centrist Francois Bayrou, named as Prime Minister last week after the sudden collapse of his predecessor Michel Barnier's government, needs to get the budget through parliament ...