Far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who holds outsize leverage in France’s split parliament, gave Prime Minister Michel Barnier ...
France’s financial markets are having a rough week. The country’s sovereign bond market in particular, is reeling with ten-year borrowing costs briefly hitting highs not seen since the 2012 Eurozone ...
A French government source announced that the country is significantly scaling back subsidies for electric vehicle (EV) ...
The struggle against Macron cannot be left to parliamentary maneuvers by the neo-fascist Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whose ...
Marine Le Pen’s budget brinkmanship is a manageable risk. Longer-term institutional and political crisis is not.
The New Popular Front believed that because it won the election, it had the right to form a government. Macron disagreed, ...
French Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Thursday dropped plans to raise electricity taxes in his 2025 budget, bowing to far-right threats to bring the government down unless he eased the burden on the ...
Plan was sticking point between government and the National Rally, which has threatened to topple the prime minister.
Political paralysis and parlous public finances leave investors rattled.
In early October, a budget for 2025 was put forward that aimed to bring under control France's growing deficit, through a ...
French Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Thursday announced a major concession in a bid to end a standoff with the opposition ...
French Prime Minister Michel Barnier abandoned on Thursday plans to increase electricity taxes in the 2025 budget, yielding ...