A top advisor to French President Emmanuel Macron announced last week that he would quit, causing further chaos for Macron. The top diplomatic adviser Emmanuel Bonne told Macron he was resigning on Friday,
Pressure on Emmanuel Macron has increased significantly since Michel Barnier was ousted as Prime Minister after barely three months in the job at the end of last year.
France’s new prime minister has hinted at plans to water down Emmanuel Macron’s controversial state pension reforms...
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that new Prime Minister Francois Bayrou will travel to China to try to make progress on a trade dispute that threatens cognac sales. Read more at straitstimes.
France’s plans to build a national memorial for victims of terrorism – originally shelved due to budget cuts – are back on track, President Emmanuel Macron has promised. The project’s proposed
Storm clouds have hovered over French politics for some time now but it was in the summer of last year that the thunder really began to roll. In July, early parliamentary elections resulted in an unclear outcome because no single party won a clear majority.
François Bayrou comfortably survived his first confidence vote on Thursday, a little over one month after the veteran centrist became France’s prime minister. The January 16 vote, called by the left-wing force La France Insoumise (LFI),
France’s Prime Minister François Bayrou has offered to “renegotiate” Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular move to raise workers’ retirement age from 62 to 64, in a bid to win round leftists as he attempts to pass a budget in a hung parliament.
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou is expected to lay out in a speech on Tuesday the contours of a deal to water down pension reforms in return for support from the left on passing a budget.
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou told the National Assembly Tuesday that he will re-open talks with the country's trade unions and employers' associations on President Emmanuel Macron's
His government on shaky ground, Prime Minister François Bayrou offered to reopen debate on the measure, which raised the retirement age in an effort to stabilize the country’s finances.
The prime minister runs a minority government, composed of ministers ranging from ex-Socialists to conservatives, which is not based on any formal coalition pact. Faced with the same problem, his conservative predecessor,