French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu resigned on Monday, just hours after appointing his new cabinet, plunging France straight back into a political crisis it has been stuck in since 2022.

PARIS (AP) — The outgoing French prime minister said Wednesday that he expects President Emmanuel Macron to name his replacement in the next 48 hours. Sébastien Lecornu didn’t say who might replace ...

Fraught French budget negotiations have claimed a third prime minister's scalp in less than a year, and only days before the government was due to submit its 2026 budget bill to parliament.

Here’s a closer look at the latest act in the unprecedented political drama that’s been roiling France since Macron stunned the nation by dissolving the National Assembly in June 2024, triggering ...

Lecornu is now the shortest-serving prime minister in the history of the Fifth Republic, which started in 1958.

The U.S. Dollar ( DXY) edged higher on Monday, as the euro slumped against the currency after the surprise resignation of France’s new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu. The greenback was last up 0.45% ...