• July 23 2025
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• July 23 2025
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• July 20 2025
  France’s fiscal watchdog says plan to scrap holidays ‘remains to be proven’

  Pierre Moscovici commends efforts to cut deficit as prime minister’s proposal comes under fire from opposition groups

  
• July 17 2025
  France

  Bayrou stakes French premiership on wooing Socialists on budget

  Veteran centrist gambles on left-leaning MPs being willing to abstain on proposal to cut deficit

  
• July 15 2025
  French PM proposes scrapping two national holidays to cut deficit

  François Bayrou stakes his political survival on unpopular measures to repair degraded public finances

  
• July 14 2025
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• July 13 2025
  France

  Macron promises to boost France’s defence budget by €6.5bn over next 2 years

  President says ‘freedom has never been so threatened since 1945’ in address ahead of Bastille Day parade

  
• July 12 2025
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  Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to the UK was a chance to celebrate a ‘reconvergence’ of interests

  
• July 11 2025
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• July 10 2025
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• July 10 2025
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  UK-France migration deal fails to address root causes, UN migration chief warns

  Amy Pope says ‘one in, one out’ scheme will not ‘get to the heart’ of small boats crisis in the Channel

  
• July 9 2025
  French police raid offices of Le Pen’s far-right Rassemblement National

  Party leader Jordan Bardella says officers seized accounting information and other documents

  
• July 8 2025
  Macron urges Britain and France to move on from Brexit and work ‘side by side’

  French president says two countries have ‘special responsibility’ for security of Europe

  
• July 8 2025
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• June 24 2025
  French Socialists threaten to topple Bayrou government over pensions

  Failure of talks between unions and employers about retirement age could trigger censure vote

  
• June 16 2025
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  France bars Israeli arms manufacturers at Paris trade show

  Elbit, Rafael, Israel Aerospace Industries and Uvision stalls blocked after refusing French order to not show offensive weapons

  
• June 9 2025
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  Renault asked by French government to make drones in Ukraine

  Paris approaches carmaker and defence businesses with plan to establish ‘completely unprecedented partnership’

  
• June 8 2025
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  France’s defence spending surge threatened by high national debt

  Emmanuel Macron wants to strengthen military as US pulls back from Europe but must tackle steep borrowing costs

  
• June 3 2025
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• May 29 2025
  Education

  French business schools fast-track entry for foreign students blocked from US

  Institutions seek to lure elite scholars who fear being caught up by tougher US visa rules

  
• May 26 2025
  Macron touts France as ‘reliable’ partner for south-east Asia

  French president’s visit to Vietnam, Indonesia and Singapore will portray Paris as more respectful than US or China

  
• May 19 2025
  French conservatives pick hardliner to lead them into 2027 election

  Interior minister Bruno Retailleau has emulated far right on migration and crime

  
• May 19 2025
  Nuclear energy

  Germany drops opposition to nuclear power in rapprochement with France

  Paris wins approval from Berlin to remove anti-nuclear bias in EU legislation, say officials

  
• May 14 2025
  EU defence

  Macron open to stationing French nuclear weapons in other European nations

  French president in talks with Germany and Poland over whether warheads can protect them against Russia

  
• May 7 2025
  EU defence

  France and Germany to set up joint security council

  Paris hopes Chancellor Friedrich Merz will bring new dynamism to European defence projects

  

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