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 ...

French lawmakers are to hold a vote of no confidence on Wednesday to decide on the future of the centre-right government led ...

Germany's DAX ( ^GDAXI) rose 0.7% and the CAC ( ^FCHI) in Paris headed 0.4% into the green. The European retail and tech led ...

The euro was trading little changed as the French government faces a no confidence vote later after Prime Minister Michel ...

Kathleen Brooks, research director at XTB, said if Barnier's government did survive, then there would likely be a big recovery in French bonds, stocks and the euro, though a defeat would see the ...

Edmund Shing, the global chief investment officer at BNP Paribas Wealth Management, highlighted that stagnation and ...

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

At a time when economic growth in France is slowing markedly, this is bad news. The public deficit will remain high, debt ...

European were muted at the open on Wednesday as investors braced for a crucial no-confidence vote by French lawmakers that ...

France’s minority government appeared to be in its final hours Tuesday as opposition lawmakers from the left and the far ...

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.

France's government on Wednesday faces no confidence votes that could spell the end of the short-lived administration of ...