By FocusEconomics On 9 September, France’s prime minister, François Bayrou, quit after losing a confidence vote that toppled his government....
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Legislators toppled France’s government in a confidence vote on Monday, a new crisis for Europe’s second-largest economy that obliges President Emmanuel Macron to search for a fourth prime minister in 12 months. Prime Minister François Bayrou was ousted overwhelmingly in a 364-194 vote against him. Bayrou paid the price for what appeared to be a staggering political miscalculation, gambling that lawmakers would back his view that France must slash public spending to repair its debts. Instead, they seized on the vote that Bayrou called to gang up against the 74-year-old centrist who was appointed by Macron last December. The demise of Bayrou’s short-lived minority government — now...
By FocusEconomics On 9 September, France’s prime minister, François Bayrou, quit after losing a confidence vote that toppled his government....
By FocusEconomics On 9 September, France’s prime minister, François Bayrou, quit after losing a confidence vote that toppled his government....
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IT’S the million dollar question that may decide the fate of French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu: how to tax France’s billionaires?
IT’S the million dollar question that may decide the fate of French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu: how to tax France’s billionaires?
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Protesters have hit France with...
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to confirm that the British government will vote to recognize a Palestinian state hours or days after...