Prime Minister Michel Barnier bypassed parliamentary approval to impose the 2025 budget, invoking a seldom-used constitutional provision.

After Prime Minister Michel Barnier lost a no-confidence vote in Parliament, President Emmanuel Macron castigated his political opposition for “choosing disorder” and said he would not resign.

French PM Michel Barnier has invoked Article 49.3 to pass budget measures without parliamentary approval, risking a no-confidence vote. Opposition, led by Marine Le Pen, demanded the indexation of ...

France’s government fell on Wednesday night after MPs voted to oust prime minister Michel Barnier’s administration, plunging the country into fresh political turmoil. The 73-year-old former EU ...

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier lost a confidence vote on Wednesday. The vote was triggered after he forced through part of the 2025 budget using an executive decree.

Michel Barnier has become the first PM of France to be ousted in a no-confidence vote since 1962 Left and far-right parties united to collapse his government - just three months after he was ...

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier presented to his cabinet on Thursday a budget intended to reduce the country's deficits, ahead of a likely battle in parliament. In office for just over a ...

The French government is prepared to “make concessions” to get its budget though parliament and avoid a market “storm”, the country’s finance minister said on Thursday, in a stand-off ...

If Barnier’s government falls in such a vote, which could take place as early as Wednesday, it would make him France’s shortest-serving premier since the Fifth Republic was established in 1958.

Prime Minister Michel Barnier pushed a budget bill through the lower house of Parliament without a vote. A no-confidence vote this week could topple him and his cabinet.