Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu ruled out using a constitutional tool that would avoid a full parliamentary vote, hoping for ...

Lecornu’s first big move has been to dismiss the idea of cutting two public holidays, championed by his immediate predecessor, whose government fell earlier this month. François Bayrou had stirred ...

France has been plunged into a new political crisis with the defeat of Prime Minister François Bayrou at a confidence vote in the National Assembly. The defeat – by 364 votes to 194 – means that ...

France’s new prime minister announced Friday he would not use a special constitutional power to force a budget through ...

Legislators toppled France's government in a confidence vote, a new crisis for Europe's second-largest economy. Prime Minister François Bayrou was ousted overwhelmingly in a 364-194 vote against him.

France's new prime minister, Sebastien Lecornu, pledged to find creative ways to work with rivals to pass a debt-slimming budget while also promising new policy directions, after taking office on a ...

Tens of thousands of protesters marched through French cities on Thursday, heeding the rallying cry of trade unions demanding ...

Nationwide unrest broke out across France on Wednesday as protesters blocked roads, set fires and clashed with police, who responded with tear gas, as anger grows against the country’s political class ...

Protesters took to the streets of more than 200 towns and cities across France to denounce spending cuts and demand higher ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron, right, shakes hand with France's Prime Minister Francois Bayrou during the farewell ceremony of Chief of Staff of the French Armed Forces Thierry Burkhard, in the ...

French and South African reports suggest Ambassador Nkosinathi Emmanuel Mthethwa may have killed himself in a plunge from his ...