France’s government survived a no-confidence vote Wednesday in parliament, and the state budget for 2025 is finally adopted.

The new government enters office after months of political deadlock and crisis and pressure from financial markets to reduce France's colossal debt. Macron has vowed to remain in office until his ...

PARIS — (AP) — France's president and prime minister managed to form a new government just in time for the holidays. Now comes the hard part. Crushing debt, intensifying pressure from the ...

But France's parliament remains bitterly divided ... Julien Mattia/Le Pictorium/dpa/picture alliance The French government under new Prime Minister Francois Bayrou survived a vote of no-confidence ...

The bargaining brings France and its public finances to another cliff edge after months of upheaval that toppled Michel Barnier’s government in December and left the country relying on stopgap ...

President Emmanuel Macron's office said the composition of France's new government would be announced on Monday evening amid efforts to drag the second-largest EU economy out of a deepening ...

To seek more stability for his minority government, Bayrou announced in January that he was open to renegotiate a contested plan raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, which sparked widespread ...

President Emmanuel Macron and new Prime Minister Francois Bayrou kept the country waiting Sunday over the composition of the fourth government in a year that must drag France out of political crisis.

Prime Minister François Bayrou broke a blockade of opposition parties that had brought down the government of his predecessor ...