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French lawmakers race to pass emergency rollover 2026 budget law

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French lawmakers adopt 2026 social security budget, suspend Macron's flagship pension reform

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Will France be next to introduce an Australian-style social media ban for children?

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French lower house rejects contentious budget bill over tax proposals

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French National Assembly overwhelmingly votes to suspend controversial pension reform

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France: Drinking alcohol in Parliament? Should it not be covered by the parliamentary allowance?

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French government's fate in the balance as lawmakers set to vote on wealth tax

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French PM urges lawmakers to reach compromise over 'imperfect' austerity budget

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French government survives two no-confidence votes but remains fragile

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French government will have to find compromise with MPs to get budget through

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Now that the pension reform is suspended, what is ahead for the French government?

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French Prime Minister asks MPs find measures to fund pension reform suspension

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French PM announces the pension reform will be suspended until the presidential election

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French Prime Minister addresses Parliament, outlines new government priorities

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Sébastien Lecornu bets on a government of technical ministers

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French Prime Minister to announce cuts in new austerity budget

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Hundreds arrested as police clash with France’s ‘Block Everything’ protesters

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Macron names ally Sébastien Lecornu as new French PM after Bayrou government toppled

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French government toppled in confidence vote, Macron to appoint new PM 'in next few days'

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France’s far-right party urges snap elections after talks with PM Bayrou yield ‘no miracle’

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French PM Bayrou tries to shore up support for budget plan ahead of confidence vote

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French PM says 'fate of France' is at stake in Sept 8 confidence vote

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French far right rejects compromise deal to save PM Bayrou's government

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How can French PM François Bayrou's upcoming confidence vote play out?

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French PM Bayrou to ask for risky vote of confidence over austerity budget on September 8

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Record-breaking French petition aims to thwart return of 'bee killer' pesticide

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FRANCE 24 coverage resumes as public media reform bill heads back to Senate

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France's Socialists file new no-confidence motion against PM Bayrou after pension talks crumble

France

French lawmakers back promotion of Alfred Dreyfus, 130 years after anti-Semitic scandal

France

France’s lower house approves assisted dying bill with 305 votes in favor

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France's assisted dying bill: What's in it?

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French parliament considers adding consent to rape law in penal code

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French lawmakers adopt bill to bring back village cafés

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French PM Bayrou uses special constitutional powers to force 2025 budget through parliament

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French PM Francois Bayrou hopes to have budget ready by mid-February

Europe

French parliament avoids government shutdown by passing special budget rollover bill

Europe

New French PM François Bayrou to grapple with national debt, budget

Europe

French party leaders meet with Macron, who aims to name next PM 'in 48 hours'

Europe

Macron hunts for new French PM after lawmakers topple Barnier government

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French political impasse deepens after government ousted in no-confidence vote

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No-confidence vote: Is France headed towards a US-style government shutdown?

French political impasse deepens after government ousted in no-confidence vote

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French parliament topples PM Barnier's government in no-confidence vote

As it happened
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On eve of no-confidence vote, French PM says he will not give in to 'blackmail' over budget

Europe

Why the French government is headed for collapse

Analysis
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Entre Nous

Article 49.3: The French government’s special constitutional power

Press Review

‘Julius Le Pen’: Will French far right decide fate of PM Barnier’s government?

More than half of French want PM Barnier’s government to fall, survey shows

Europe

French PM Barnier unveils deficit-slashing 2025 budget

Europe

France’s new govt relies on far-right support as it faces no-confidence vote

Europe

REPLAY: New French PM gives policy speech at National Assembly

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PM Barnier tells parliament France’s 'colossal' debt is a 'sword of Damocles'

Inaugural address
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‘Restore order’: France's new Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau signals rightward shift

French politics
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Critics blast new French PM Barnier for having twice voted against gay rights

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France’s new PM Michel Barnier tackles challenge of forming a unifying cabinet

Europe

France still in political deadlock as Macron grapples with choosing prime minister

Europe

Macron kicks off tense talks on new French government

French political leaders meet Macron for tough talks on new PM

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Macron says he won't name new French government until after the Olympics

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France's National Assembly elects its commissions, with still no new government in sight

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Election of commission leaders within the French Assembly: hard-left and centre-right MPs elected

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Commission leadership positions within the French National Assembly: no far-right MPs elected

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In France, the far-right RN party sees key positions in Parliament slip from its grasp

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French lawmakers cry foul after suspected ballot-stuffing in National Assembly

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Pros and cons of a ‘technocratic government’ that could end France's political stalemate

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Back to the drawing board: French left bloc's compromise PM pick drops out

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Outgoing French PM Attal takes the reins of parliamentary group after party vote

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French left suggests former communist MP Huguette Bello for premiership

Europe

French people divided as parties struggle to form govt coalition in parliament

Europe

Huguette Bello emerges as compromise French left PM pick, but Socialists on the fence

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'Contained but not stopped': French far right takes record number of seats in parliament

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Perspective

‘Smoke and mirrors’ in French parliament as left seeks to take helm, expert says

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