The government of Prime Minister ​Sebastien Lecornu has survived two no confidence motions triggered by his decision to force his contested budget through parliament without a vote.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Friday survived the first of two no-confidence votes, triggered by the country's ...

France's Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has used special constitutional powers to force part of his 2026 budget bill ...

With a splintered Parliament, fixing France's economic woes means rounds of intricate negotiations, many of which fail. Some ...

Use of controversial Article 49.3 opens government up to vote of no confidence but opposition MPs unlikely to find enough ...

Former ministers and advisers tell POLITICO the seeds of defeat on the Latin America trade deal were planted long before last Friday’s vote.

Amid political deadlock in France, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Tuesday began the process of forcing through his ...

Without a majority in the Assemblée Nationale, Sébastien Lecornu reluctantly decided to trigger the Constitution's Article 49 ...

The no-confidence motions aimed to protest the European Union’s trade agreement with the MERCOSUR bloc.