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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new French budget goes in the right direction but focus must now shift to implementation, and getting the deficit down as planned is a credibility test for the new ...

The government's 2025 budget, delivered on Thursday, contained plans for 60 billion euros ($65.5 billion) of spending cuts and tax hikes focused on the wealthy and big companies to tackle a ...

Emmanuel Macron’s government revised its budget plans to front-load deeper tax cuts the French president says will drive job creation and growth.

(Bloomberg) -- French Prime Minister Michel Barnier issued a warning over the country’s public finances as disagreements between rival parties on tax and spending further complicate his task of ...

French Budget Minister Laurent Saint-Martin and Prime Minister Michel Barnier in Paris, October 1, 2024. JULIEN MUGUET FOR LE MONDE. The figure is a deliberately spectacular one: around €60 billion.

French far-right leader Jordan Bardella said on Tuesday that the French people would suffer most from more uncertainty over the budget, suggesting his party would likely not back no-confidence ...

French lawmakers said they tabled a motion of no-confidence against Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Monday, setting up a vote that could see the far right topple his government within days.

To survive the vote in the fractured lower house, Barnier needs Marine Le Pen's party to abstain, otherwise his government and the budget bill could fall, plunging France into a political crisis.

French Premier Warns on Budget as Talks to Form Government Drag Barnier delays meetings with lawmakers amid bickering over tax Prime minister says budgetary situation is ‘very serious’ ...