The new French government gathered for the first time Friday amid efforts to overcome the budget quagmire that toppled the ...

Across the world, more people voted in 2024 than in any year in history. About half of the world’s adult population got the ...

The new cabinet of 35 members includes many well-known figures. Elisabeth Borne, the French prime minister until Jan 9 this ...

Crushing debt , intensifying pressure from the nationalist far right, wars in Europe and the Mideast: Challenges abound for ...

Meanwhile the government in the restive French South Pacific territory of New Caledonia collapsed Tuesday in a wave of ...

The foreign, defense and interior ministers from the government that collapsed this month return in Prime Minister François ...

The 35 government members under prime minister Francois Bayrou, by political party *presidential coalition UDI* Civil society ...

PARIS — French Prime Minister François Bayrou wants to know who is in and who is out. After days of meetings with party leaders, Bayrou has set a deadline of Friday for each of them to tell him ...

France's new Prime Minister Francois Bayrou was Friday racing to name by Christmas at the latest a government to lead ... Bayrou -- who has long coveted the job of prime minister -- will be ...

France's new Prime Minister Francois Bayrou was Friday racing to name by Christmas at the latest a government to lead the country out of its political crisis but with no sign of an end to months ...

As France waits for its newly appointed Prime Minister, François Bayrou, to form a new government, its parliament has adopted a special law to make up for the absence of a budget for 2025.

The French Senate on Wednesday approved a special law to ensure the continuation of core state functions while the government works on next year's budget. The law, passed after the lower house's ...