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 ...

A month into 2025, France has a dramatic deficit and no budget. Experts say Prime Minister François Bayrou's efforts to win ...

French lawmakers are negotiating the 2025 budget bill to restore investor confidence. Critical to this process is the ...

A panel of French lawmakers were meeting on Thursday to thrash out the final text of a much delayed 2025 budget bill that is ...

The French economy grew 1.1 percent in 2024 but shrank in the fourth quarter as a political crisis gripped the country, ...

H e brandished a chainsaw at campaign rallies, to signify his eagerness to clear-cut the thickets of bureaucracy and ...

Gross domestic product was 0.1% less in the fourth quarter than the third, when a boost from the games held in Paris in July and August helped the French economy grow at the fastest rate last year.

France’s beleaguered economy was given a boost by the Olympics Games in Paris last summer but political upheaval has ensued ...

French lawmakers on Thursday will try to reach a budget compromise that can get enough support to avert another government ...

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

Prime Minister Francois Bayrou was at risk on Wednesday of losing the little tacit opposition support he relies on in ...