Olivier Blanchard told POLITICO that the country is “absolutely not doing what is needed” to get its finances in order.

France’s new finance minister, the experienced Eric Lombard (banker, economist – newly nicknamed as ‘Spider-Man’) has relaunched the budget process that will

President Emmanuel Macron picked François Bayrou as France’s new prime minister earlier this month, despite his lack of any parliamentary majority. Bayrou’s appointment on December 13 came just over a week after his predecessor Michel Barnier’s government was felled by a no-confidence vote proposed by the Left and joined by the far right,

France faces a deep political crisis, with Macron’s government faltering amid social unrest and the far-right's rise

The fledgling Paris government is “trying their best” to get a budget through parliament after a previous version sunk its predecessor.

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday warned parliament about his country's spiralling debt and said he was ready to reopen talks on pension reform, hoping to avoid defeat in any no-confidence vote that could prolong the country's rumbling political crisis.

The next chancellor of Austria could be Europe’s most Right-wing leader after establishment parties failed to strike a pact to keep a populist pro-Putin faction out of power.

France's new government set on Wednesday a lower target for spending cuts this year than its predecessor as it races to get a 2025 budget passed by the end of the month. The budget bill has been stuck in the Senate since lawmakers in the lower house ousted the previous government over parts of its belt-tightening push,

Shortly after the policy statement of France's new Prime Minister François Bayrou, a vote of no confidence was filed against his government on Tuesday evening. Members of the leftist party France Unbowed (LFI) justified the move with the composition of the centre-right Cabinet and Bayrou's budget policy.

The prospects of French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou's minority government surviving in the long term appeared slimmer after the Socialist Party raised the threat of backing a no-confidence vote on Thursday.

Michel Barnier and Martin Fourcade emerged as the frontrunners to lead the 2030 Winter Olympics in the French Alps. Balancing politics and sport,

Valerie Andre, the first French woman to be promoted to the rank of general in an armed forces career that saw her deployed as a doctor, parachutist and helicopter pilot died on Tuesday aged 102, the defence ministry said.