The debate over the change in legislation gained renewed urgency following the mass rape trial which shocked France last year ...

France’s National Assembly has for the first time voted a motion pushed by the far-right National Rally urging the repeal of ...

Today, as a new government struggles to put together a budget for 2026, and to the dismay of many centrists, the pension ...

France's Parliament has adopted a landmark law -that defines rape as any non-consensual sexual act, a significant milestone ...

French voters have given a broad leftist coalition the most parliamentary seats in a pivotal legislative election that has kept the far right from power but has put France in the unprecedented ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after his resignation, asking ...

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has survived a vote of no-confidence that could have toppled his fragile new government. The National Assembly's decision Thursday clears the way for ...

For the president, success would mean proving that France can pass a credible budget in a hung parliament and start to rein in its deficit without extraordinary procedural force. If the talks crack — ...

While France has a long history of hefty overspending, economists say political turmoil – which has stalled policymaking – is bringing the country’s debt problem to a head.

French lawmakers continued to debate duelling wealth tax proposals on Friday, including the "Zucman tax" of a 2 percent ...

In the nine years since its founding in 2016, La France Insoumise (LFI) has become the leading left formation in France, with ...

Across the world’s democracies, the past year has been one of constitutional turbulence. In France, multiple prime ministers ...