France is in a constitutional crisis, in economically difficult circumstances (it suffered another debt downgrade this ...

France’s lower house of parliament toppled the government for the first time in more than 60 years in early December, forcing ...

France’s new Prime Minister Francois Bayrou’s meeting with Marine Le Pen on Monday left the far-right leader “more positive” ...

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou is running out of time to meet his self-imposed deadline to name a new cabinet that won ...

The prime minister has failed his first big test. Despite presenting another crop of ministers, he hasn’t built a broader ...

New French prime minister promises to present a budget in February, offers to review controversial pensions reform.

He talks of a 90 per cent tax rate and lowering the retirement age. His party La France Insoumise ... Then there’s the populist Marine Le Pen, 56. Her hobby is breeding Bengal cats, an ...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen delivers her speech at the National ... yet a plan to raise the retirement age — considered sacrosanct in France — proved another misstep.

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier was voted out of confidence by lawmakers from the far left and the left coalition over a controversial budget.

The 73-year-old also put forth his age and experience — including four ... against the wall,” said a senior RN official. Marine Le Pen, right, spoke to Michel Barnier multiple times on the ...

The French government collapsed in a vote of no confidence, and in the coming election, Marine Le Pen, the head of the ...