(Bloomberg) -- French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said he aimed to reach an agreement with parliament on a 2025 budget that would reduce the country’s deficit to close to 5%, near the level his ...

At his August 25 press conference, Prime Minister François Bayrou said he will demand a vote of confidence at the National Assembly on September 8 on his austerity budget. Under the terms of Article ...

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said he doesn’t regret calling a confidence vote putting his government on the line, as France is “burdened with debt” and the political parties must “each take ...

Legislators toppled France's government in a confidence vote on Monday, a new crisis for Europe's second-largest economy that obliges President Emmanuel Macron to search for a fourth prime minister in ...

France lurched into a political crisis after Prime Minister Francois Bayrou gambled on a confidence vote, with little hope of any quick solution to fix its ailing public finances, whether a new ...

The Prime Minister Francois Bayrou at the Elysee Palace after the Council of Ministers in Paris on Feb. 19, 2025. (Quentin de Groeve/ Hans Lucas via AFP) MARSEILLE, France (CN) — On Wednesday, French ...

PARIS—France’s new prime minister, François Bayrou, is facing his first major test at parliament on Tuesday as his government ...

PARIS, June 24 (Reuters) - France's Socialists filed a no-confidence measure against Prime Minister Francois Bayrou after pension talks collapsed, a senior party lawmaker said on Tuesday, but it seems ...

PARIS — France's prime minister on Monday tore into U.S. President Donald Trump’s Oval Office thrashing of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling it a staggering show of “brutality” that aimed to humiliate ...

France’s government is aiming for savings of €4.2 billion euros ($4.9 billion) from the state budget starting 2026 with a previously-announced plan to eliminate two public holidays, even though there ...

President Emmanuel Macron named centrist ally François Bayrou as France's new prime minister on Friday as he sought to steer the country out of political chaos following a no-confidence vote that ...