The French economy is expected to face significant challenges in 2025 due to ongoing political instability, more restrictive ...

Swaying through moral crises and social revolutions, Jeffrey M Pilcher’s Hopped Up explains how beer took over the world ...

Political uncertainty hits France's services sector, PMI shows December 4, 2024 French Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Thursday ... iTunes Store, Books and Podcasts. Apple told by EU to end ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s government risks rejection of its annual budget if it doesn’t concede more ground to ...

France’s economy faces stagnation with GDP growth forecast at just 0.6% for 2025 and a 6.1% budget deficit in 2024.

Prime Minister François Bayrou sparked outrage from the opposition, and indignation from his allies, when he referred to a ...

Last year, French rates issuers placed €102.26bn-equivalent across these three currencies, with almost all this supply coming in the first half. Appetite for the country dropped after June's snap ...

It’s a tough call, not least because Trump sidelined Bob Lighthizer, his first-term chief trade negotiator, after I had read Lighthizer’s book, “No Trade Is Free ... François Bayrou plans to use ...

France entered the new year for the first time in its modern history without a proper budget after lawmakers ousted Prime Minister Michel Barnier in opposition to his plans to bring down the country's ...

The no-confidence vote in Michel Barnier that has toppled his minority government was the first since 1962 to oust a French prime minister of the Fifth Republic. 331 MPs from the left and far-right ...

The Paris-based issuer raised €2.5bn by selling a 2.875% May 2030 bond. It priced at 7bp over OATs, 5bp tighter than guidance. The bond tightened further in secondary by 2bp-3bp, according to a lead ...

Emmanuel Macron has admitted that his decision to dissolve the National Assembly last year was a failure. “I have to admit this evening that, for the moment, the dissolution has brought more ...