Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alex Ledsom is a France-based contributor who covers travel. France intends to introduce a new healthcare charge for all non-EU ...

French President Emmanuel Macron took power in 2017, the same year President Trump first moved into the White House courtesy of the Electoral College. Both were insurgents but stood on opposite sides ...

President Macron’s reformist agenda has run out of steam. Pity French president Emmanuel Macron—and France, too. The nation suffers from an unsustainable economic model, and the president’s government ...

S&P Global Ratings downgraded France, dealing another blow to the country’s credibility as a weakened minority government struggles to pass legislation to tackle a swelling debt burden. In an ...

France's PM, re-installed after resigning last week, announced plans to suspend President Emmanuel Macron's landmark pension reform. "There will be no increase in the retirement age from now until ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after his resignation, asking him to try again to form a government and produce a budget in a bid ...

PARIS/LONDON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - The collapse of France's latest government leaves the euro zone's second-biggest economy lurching deeper into a morass of feeble growth, high borrowing costs and a ...

President Emmanuel Macron could appoint a new prime minister. But he is under increasing pressure to call new parliamentary elections. By Aurelien Breeden Reporting from Paris What will President ...

France’s prime minister has quit after losing a confidence vote that toppled his government, plunging the country into a new political crisis. François Bayrou submitted his resignation to President ...

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 ...

PARIS — France's latest political controversy isn't about taxes, retirement or even cuts to summer vacation. It's about air conditioning. As European summers get hotter, some say: Turn it on. Others ...

France’s updated Indo-Pacific strategy, unveiled shortly after President Emmanuel Macron’s May tour of Vietnam, Indonesia, and Singapore, is less about grand announcements than it is about realism. It ...