France's newly-installed government on Thursday presented a draft budget containing 60 billion ... Chicago Catch-Up newsletter. The fragile French government led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier ...

PARIS (Reuters) -France needs to make a new and sustained push to rein in its budget deficit and get its rising debt under ...

French Prime Minister François Bayrou forced his 2025 budget plan through parliament without a vote from the MPs on Monday, ...

French Budget Heads Toward Game of Chicken With Le Pen Senate to debate bill after lower house rejects amended text Government likely to face a no-confidence vote in December ...

Bayrou used the Article 49.3 to push through both the first part of the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS) and the state budget ... be disastrous for ordinary French people.

PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Michel Barnier is ... constitutional mechanism to push through the contentious 2025 budget without parliamentary approval, arguing it was essential to maintain ...

(Robert Atanasovski/AFP via Getty Images) STUTTGART ... Notable exceptions: FCAS and MGCS Two French-involved programs stand out in the budget thanks to their omission: the Future Combat Air ...

PARIS (Reuters) -A panel of French lawmakers on Friday agreed on the final text of a much-delayed 2025 budget proposal, paving the way for the lower house passage of a bill that is key to ...

The French budget’s fate and that of Barnier’s administration remain largely in the hands of the far-right RN party, which is the biggest single party and a key voting bloc in the National ...

PARIS—Anti-immigrant leader Marine Le Pen is engaged in a high-stakes game of chicken with the French government and ... soften the impact of its planned budget on taxpayers.