Francois Bayrou will face a fractured and fractious parliament where one of his earliest tasks will be to pass a budget for ...

WHEN veteran centrist Francois Bayrou, France’s new prime minister, was education minister in the 1990s, his plan to increase ...

The action, which will put pressure on the nation’s borrowing costs, reflects doubt that a new government can mend the ...

Pope Francis urged Catholic priests on Sunday to guard against spiritual groups that stoke political divisions, speaking ...

Corsica is home to more than 340,000 people and has been part of France since 1768. But the island has also seen ...

Pope Francis urged Catholic priests on Sunday to guard against spiritual groups that stoke political divisions, speaking ...

Emmanuel Macron wants to try again. By tapping François Bayrou as prime minister on Friday, France’s president hopes to ...

A brief visit by Pope Francis to the French island of Corsica puts a dual focus on the Mediterranean, highlighting local ...

Eager to regain control, the French president was about to appoint the outgoing armed forces minister as prime minister. But ...

Pope Francis' one-day visit to the French island of Corsica on Sunday, two days before his 88th birthday, will put a dual foc ...

In an unscheduled change, Moody's lowered its assessment of the euro area's second-biggest economy to Aa3 from Aa2, three ...