French politics has become increasingly unstable since ... a political crisis so deep since the creation in 1958 of the Fifth Republic, the current system of government. The 1958 constitution was ...

PARIS (Reuters) -France's new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his government resigned on Monday, hours after Lecornu announced his cabinet line-up, making it the shortest-lived administration in ...

Political instability has come at a high cost, fueling growing distrust and a sense that democracy is dysfunctional, ...

A political deadlock in parliament has left President Emmanuel Macron struggling to reduce an out-of-control deficit.

PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Tuesday announced he would suspend a much-debated plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, in a move aimed at preventing his fragile ...

France’s government on Thursday survived a first vote of no confidence held in the National Assembly, after a pledge by Prime ...

The French president accuses "the political forces that have played with destabilisation" of being "the only ones responsible ...

The reversal is aimed at securing the backing of Socialists to avoid the country’s fourth collapse of a government in less ...

PARIS, Oct 6 (Reuters) - France's new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu resigned on Monday, barely 14 hours after appointing his new cabinet, after allies and foes alike threatened to topple his ...

France’s new Prime Minister, Sebastien Lecornu, resigned on Monday, barely 14 hours after appointing his new cabinet, after allies and foes alike threatened to topple his government, driving French ...