Almost certainly, Michel Barnier’s right-wing government in France will fall on 4 December. Facing fiscal crisis, it tried to get its cuts budget through by “49.3”, a constitutional device enabling ...

PARIS: France's government on Wednesday (Dec 4) faces no-confidence votes that could spell the end of the short-lived ...

French President Emmanuel Macron will preside over the re-opening of Notre-Dame cathedral, with a number of world leaders ...

The irony is unlikely to be lost on Emmanuel Macron: while France’s fire-struck Notre-Dame cathedral is to reopen after being saved in extremis from total collapse, the country’s government is about ...

French lawmakers will hold a no-confidence vote Wednesday, with far-right leader Marine Le Pen expected to join forces with a left-wing coalition to topple the government.

If Barnier’s government falls, it would be the first successful no-confidence vote since 1962, when President Charles de ...

France’s far-right leader has brought the government to its knees. Now, with the country in political turmoil, she has the ...

The former European commissioner is expected to go down in history as France’s shortest-serving prime minister.

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier made a last-ditch attempt to rally support for his government. Far left and far right members of parliament are preparing to bring it down in a no confidence vote.

Let’s wake up and prevent what seems inevitable − chaos.”Mr Retailleau was particularly critical of Marine Le Pen of the RN, saying she was “totally irresponsible − irresponsible because she is going ...

The immediate catalyst for the no-confidence motion was Barnier's decision to invoke a constitutional mechanism to pass the ...

Following the June-July parliamentary elections, the National Assembly, France’s powerful lower house of parliament, is ...