French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou passed the first test of his new minority government on Thursday as he survived a vote of no-confidence called by the hard left after the centre-left Socialist Party did not back the motion. The far-right National Rally (RN) party of Marine Le Pen had already signalled it would not support the motion.

The U.S. Department of Justice vigorously opposed at a French court hearing in December the release of a Lebanese militant jailed for attacks on American and Israeli diplomats in France more than 40 years ago,

The fledgling Paris government is “trying their best” to get a budget through parliament after a previous version sunk its predecessor.

His predecessor was thrown out of office after a very short time. So France's new prime minister, Francois Bayrou, is trying another kind of balancing act to make sure the country's government doesn’t collapse again.

The prospects of French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou's minority government surviving in the long term appeared slimmer after the Socialist Party raised the threat of backing a no-confidence vote on Thursday.

France's new government set on Wednesday a lower target for spending cuts this year than its predecessor as it races to get a 2025 budget passed by the end of the month. The budget bill has been stuck in the Senate since lawmakers in the lower house ousted the previous government over parts of its belt-tightening push,

Shortly after the policy statement of France's new Prime Minister François Bayrou, a vote of no confidence was filed against his government on Tuesday evening. Members of the leftist party France Unbowed (LFI) justified the move with the composition of the centre-right Cabinet and Bayrou's budget policy.

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.

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday opened the door to renegotiating a disputed pension reform in a bid to win over left-wing lawmakers he needs to pass the 2025 budget

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday warned parliament about his country's spiralling debt and said he was ready to reopen talks on pension reform, hoping to avoid defeat in any no-confidence vote that could prolong the country's rumbling political crisis.

His speech comes after a tumultuous 2024 for France when Macron shocked the nation by calling ... precipitating the fall of Michel Barnier's government, have made concessions on the 2023 pension reform a condition for support. The reform, widely rejected ...

President Emmanuel Macron picked François Bayrou as France’s new prime minister earlier this month, despite his lack of any parliamentary majority. Bayrou’s appointment on December 13 came just over a week after his predecessor Michel Barnier’s government was felled by a no-confidence vote proposed by the Left and joined by the far right,