François Bayrou

Gabriel Attal, who now heads the French president’s centrist political party, floated banning headscarves for women younger than 15.

The tirade was a clear warning to Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau.

François Bayrou survived the five-hour grilling without any major slip-ups, but the affair isn’t going away.

Centrist Prime Minister François Bayrou is facing a week from hell.

“The question is serious enough, with far-reaching consequences for the country’s future, that it should be put directly to the people,” Bayrou tells Journal du Dimanche.

But the Fund gives its implicit backing to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ plans to stabilize U.K. public finances.

Two people close to the prime minister said he was in a state of “intense emotion” after learning about the incident.

Even the EU’s most protectionist countries are realizing that they need new friends to trade with as their oldest ally goes rogue.

Threats against Bayrou are increasing a week after Le Pen was effectively banned from running for president.

French prime minister also says Trump’s trade war will cut France’s economic growth by more than 0.5 percentage point.

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French president adds that “threats made against judges are absolutely unbearable and intolerable.”

The race for the French presidency in 2027 has just become more unpredictable. We analyze the winners and losers from a bombshell court ruling.

Marine Le Pen has been trying to normalize the National Rally in recent years, but may be tempted to wreak havoc after her guilty verdict.

Politicians from France, Italy and Ireland front for the drinks industry as it tries to escape Trump’s 200 percent tariffs.

Marine Le Pen’s political future may be cut short. Her father Jean-Marie is dead. Their movement, however, is set for a long life.

Paris goes weak at the knees as another trade rival singles out France’s famed wines and spirits.

Brussels is giving itself more time to coordinate its response to U.S. tariffs.

An early show of European unity is being tested as capitals seek cover from U.S. president’s tariff onslaught. 

Cracks started to appear within the government over the issue in recent days.

Paris is seeking to deport Algerian nationals it deems a threat, but Algiers won’t take them back.

“Kentucky bourbon has been included as if it were a trade threat,” François Bayrou said in an interview with France Inter.

The French prime minister’s opponents were quick to attack him for what they see as a volte-face.