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France Unbowed

French PM François Bayrou survives another no-confidence vote over social security budget

France

'Bayrou needs to be careful about managing a lot of very sensitive groups in French Parliament'

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France

French PM Bayrou says he will force through contentious budget without a vote

France

French PM Bayrou survives first no-confidence vote in parliament

France

French PM Bayrou survives first no-confidence vote in parliament

France

PM Bayrou expected to name France's new government this evening

France

Does LR risk getting swallowed up by centre or losing themselves, clinging ever closer to far right?

Brussels quite 'perplexed', somewhat 'worried', about France's current political, economic crises

François Bayrou, Emmanuel Macron's centrist ally and France's new PM

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Europe

Reducing France's debt is 'moral obligation', says new French PM François Bayrou

As it happened
Europe

French President Emmanuel Macron to name new prime minister Friday morning

As it happened
France

'Macron responsible for bad economic situation': Snap elections 'created chaos in financial markets'

Macron invites party leaders for talks as he mulls France’s next government

France

France's Macron faces mounting pressure to name new prime minister

France

Calls to resign or for impeachment 'serious development in legitimacy of Macron & presidency itself'

France is 'learning how to function as a parliamentary country again', just like European neighbours

'And so it goes': Macron makes 'fairly ham-fisted, very clumsy attempt' to re-center government

'European vacuum': Franco-German alliance in trouble at a 'critical moment for Europe and France'

Macron blames alliance of 'extreme left and extreme right' for fall of French government

France

'Search for a Goldilocks govt in a parliament of bears': Will Macron find 'new way through' impasse?

EU in uncharted territory: Neither France nor Germany 'able to provide the leadership Europe needs'

Barnier govt on chopping block: 'Very surprising alliance between left-wing coalition and far right'

No-confidence vote 'putting France in a very difficult position for political reasons'

'Twilight' of his presidency: 'Macron has painted himself into a corner from which he can't escape'

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