French budget: Lawmakers strike deal on final bill as decisive vote approaches
After tense negotiations, a joint parliamentary committee agreed on a final version of the long-overdue 2025 budget plan.
French luxury billionaire sparks tax debate with threat to leave
Bernard Arnault, the billionaire boss of the world's biggest luxury conglomerate LVMH, has picked a fight with the French ...
Two men close to Benin’s president sentenced to 20 years in prison for coup plot
Two men close to Benin’s president have been sentenced to 20 years in prison for plotting a coup in the small West African ...
Big success for Donald Trump, Elon Musk? One of the world's richest persons warn that companies could flee France for US
Bernard Arnault, the billionaire boss of the world's biggest luxury conglomerate LVMH, has picked a fight with the French ...
French Prime Minister seeks compromise on controversial 2025 budget plan
Even if the joint parliamentary committee finds a compromise, there is no guarantee the budget bill will be adopted by the ...
The Economist5d
The French government’s survival is now in Socialist hands
To Mr Mélenchon’s consternation, 58 out of 66 Socialist deputies, including their leader, Olivier Faure, refused. They ...
The Economist5d
François Hollande hopes to make the French left electable again
T HREE YEARS ago the French Socialist Party was crushed into irrelevance. The party that supplied two modern ...
Chatham House6d
The collapse of Barnier’s government shows bold choices are needed to end France’s political deadlock
The no-confidence vote in Michel Barnier that has toppled his minority government ... Their intention is to force Emmanuel Macron to resign ahead of the French presidential election due in 2027. Both ...