French unions across multiple sectors are calling for strikes and protests in the coming weeks, driven by frustration over ...

Lawmakers had approved measures including ending France's contribution to the EU Budget, a change initiated by the ...

The Assemblée Nationale rejected an opposition-amended budget filled with new taxes, pushing Prime Minister Michel Barnier's ...

Internal political squabbles — and the fallout from a global backlash to inflation, immigration and ruling elites — are ...

While Eurozone member states have already cut back on spending more than the UK, US and China, the region’s debt-to-GDP ratio is up from 83.6 per cent in 2019 to 88.7 per cent at the beginning of 2024 ...

In budget forecasts last month ... The situation in Paris is the opposite. As in other EU countries, France’s public spending skyrocketed during the pandemic. But the government was reluctant to take ...

Officials from France and Germany conceded Wednesday that Europe will need to spend more on its own defenses now that ...

Dreams of Europe emulating America are dying rapidly as freedom of movement in the EU seems to be coming to a halt as some ...

LONDON — Europe is facing tight times ... mostly hit big companies and wealthy households. The 2025 budget is a first step in France’s bid to regain control of its public coffers, though ...

In his defence, Barnier had little time to prepare the budget let alone the long-term public finance plan that France badly needs and the EU demands. His plan, while inevitably crimping growth ...

With Trump sweeping to victory in America and Europe lurching to the Right, Britain’s Government is starting to look like the ...

to get the government's version of the budget passed. "It is a constitutional possibility," Bregeon told France 2 television but it was not the prime minister's "desire". Barnier's government ...