French Prime Minister Michel Barnier has handed a little known duo the task of plugging a huge hole in the budget, putting ...

The French government, which missed a deadline this week to set a blueprint to lower its debt and deficit, is struggling to ...

France needs more time to bring its budget deficit in line with a European Union (EU) limit than its current 2027 deadline, ...

French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Antoine Armand as finance minister, thrusting a 33-year-old with limited political ...

The government still faces two challenges in the coming weeks: the risk of a no-confidence vote and a tight budget deadline.

Lawmakers face pressure to figure out how to rein in France’s budget deficit as it spirals towards 6 per cent of GDP due to a ...

The European Commission said on Tuesday it was discussing setting a new deadline for France to submit a plan to reduce its ...

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier has handed a little known duo the major task of plugging a large hole in the country's ...

France has asked the European Commission to extend beyond a 20 September deadline for submitting a plan to reduce its public ...

Armand is no stranger to "Bercy" as the ministry is often called in France, having joined its elite corps of finance ...

But both the governor of the French central bank, François Villeroy de Galhau, and the president of France's Court of Audit, ...

The European Commission said ... confirming Paris had requested a postponement. France, which was placed in a formal procedure for violating the bloc's budget rules in July, was given until ...