Marine Le Pen’s budget brinkmanship is a manageable risk. Longer-term institutional and political crisis is not.

Borrowing costs for France have hit a 12-year high relative to Germany, and were more than those of Greece for the first time ...

France’s brewing political crisis is spilling into financial markets with French borrowing costs hitting the same level as ...

French borrowing costs effectively matched those of Greece on Thursday for the first time, as Michel Barnier's government ...

France is in the midst of a political impasse which could lead to a vote of no confidence and derail Emmanuel Macron's plans.

France’s benchmark bond yield matched Greece’s for the first time on record, the latest milestone in a week marked by ...

Now, the gap from Germany to France stands at almost 0.9 percentage points — the widest since the wild days of the Eurozone debt crisis a decade ago, when investors rushed for the safety of Germany.

French borrowing costs have surged past Greece with rising investor concerns who are now favouring US assets instead.

The growing sense of crisis over France’s budget is driving the country toward a moment of humiliation in financial markets: ...