President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named centrist leader Francois Bayrou as prime minister, handing him the daunting task of hauling France out of months of political crisis. Bayrou, the 73-year-old ...

Newly appointed French Prime Minister François Bayrou survived a no-confidence vote on Thursday after the opposition Socialist Party chose not to back the motion. In the surprise turn of events, most ...

The Socialists have said they won't back Bayrou, and on the far right the National Rally have said so too, telling him they only way out of the current impasse is new parliamentary elections. But some ...

French President Emmanuel Macron was meeting allies and senior politicians on Thursday as he sought to swiftly appoint a new prime minister, a day after far-right and leftist lawmakers toppled Michel ...

On the 8th (local time), the French National Assembly decided to pass a vote of no confidence against the government led by Prime Minister François Bayrou. Accordingly, the Bayrou cabinet, which was ...

PARIS — French Prime Minister François Bayrou faces a perilous moment in his premiership this week as he is expected to testify in a child abuse scandal that has dragged his polling numbers into the ...

France is facing serious pressure on public finances, with rising public debt, slowing economic growth and political instability.

France Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu's two immediate predecessors, Francois Bayrou and Michel Barnier, were ousted in a ...

France's Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu resigned on Monday, just hours after appointing his new cabinet, amid opposition ...

Bayrou, who was acquitted at the first trial in 2024, will appear alongside ten former party officials in the decade-old case involving parliamentary assistants to MEPs. “I am approaching this trial ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany's (AfD) historic victory in a German state and Marine Le Pen's status as the frontrunner for the French presidential election raise questions about the strategies ...