The French government expects a planned levy to counter tax optimization by the richest individuals to raise €2 billion ($2.1 billion) this year, according to Finance Ministry officials.

France has one of the highest and longest-standing budget deficits in the eurozone – but attempts to resolve it have already ...

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

François Bayrou comfortably survived his first confidence vote on Thursday, a little over one month after the veteran ...

President Emmanuel Macron picked François Bayrou as France’s new prime minister earlier this month, despite his lack of any ...

Heavily indebted France has received the green light from the Council of the European Union for its plans to gradually reduce ...

That is at least what French Prime Minister François Bayrou plans on doing — using Michel Barnier’s blueprint as a starting ... a no-confidence vote last month over his plans to reduce France's ...

Meanwhile, before his ouster last month, then-Prime Minister Michel Barnier, who was appointed by President Emmanuel Macron, ...

Newly appointed French Prime Minister François Bayrou survived a no-confidence vote on Thursday after the opposition ...

The EU supports French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou's revised plan to cut the budget deficit below 3% of GDP by 2029. The updated plan is approved, adhering to the EU's requirements, and was ...

The long-term survival prospects of French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou's minority government have shrunk as he fights to ...