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

His predecessor was thrown out of office after a very short time. So France's new prime minister, Francois Bayrou, is trying ...

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's prime minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday warned parliament about his country's spiralling debt and said he was ...

By Elizabeth Pineau and Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) -French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou has told party chiefs he will not ...

Like predecessor Michel Barnier, who lasted just three months before being deposed in a no-confidence vote, Bayrou lacks a ...

EU finance ministers on Tuesday formally approved France's multi-annual budget plan, despite its scaled-back ambitions to rein in the country's ballooning budget deficit this year.

European Union finance ministers will approve French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou's deficit-cutting plan on Tuesday as it ...

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

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou passed the first test of his new minority government on Thursday as he survived a vote ...

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