French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou bid farewell to parliament with an emotional defense of his “honourable and active” government before being ousted in a dramatic confidence vote. Bayrou, Macron’s ...

French Prime Minister François Bayrou has lost a confidence vote of MPs, ending his nine months in office during a period of chaos in the country's parliament, the National Assembly. Bayrou, 74, was ...

Public spending cuts ain't austerity, French Prime Minister François Bayrou argued on Thursday in his latest push to save his minority government from collapsing. "This is not austerity, it is a ...

Legislators toppled France’s government in a confidence vote on Monday, a new crisis for Europe’s second-largest economy that obliges President Emmanuel Macron to search for a fourth prime minister in ...

French Prime Minister François Bayrou warned the country’s excessive debt pile is "life-threatening" as he made his final speech to parliament ahead of a confidence vote that he is widely expected to ...

Opposition parties planning to remove centrist and bring down minority government after just nine months The French prime minister, François Bayrou, is expected to be ousted in a confidence vote on ...

The EU has refused President Trump’s call for tariffs on India and China over Russian oil, stressing independence in trade policy and unveiling a landmark 19th sanctions package on Russia.