After eight years in office, Emmanuel Macron's position as president is coming under increasing pressure as France's political crisis escalates.

With markets breathing down its neck and debt spreads widening, France is facing economic meltdown unless it can pass an austerity budget to rein in the Eurozone’s worst deficit, set for 5.4 per cent of GDP this year, by Oct 15. This parlous state is a humiliating blow for a man once dubbed “the Mozart of finance”.

Emmanuel Macron’s hand-picked prime minister is showing few signs of wanting to compromise, as corporate interests revolt against talk of new taxes.

There were significant holdovers from the previous cabinet, but President Emmanuel Macron also named several newcomers, including Bruno Le Maire, a veteran centrist politician, as defense minister.

So much for the idea that President Trump would be too ignorant and coarse to conduct diplomacy with Europe on a grand scale. And that he can’t handle differing points of view. The state visit of President Macron of France makes clear that Mr. Trump has ...

France has mechanisms to avoid a US-style shutdown, by rolling over the 2025 budget into the new year – something it did in late 2024 when then prime minister Michel Barnier was ousted over his draft budget.

The French president has joined Poland, Italy and Hungary to stall discussions ahead of the COP30 climate conference in November. BRUSSELS — Emmanuel Macron built his reputation as Europe’s climate crusader with a defiant call to “make our planet ...

The political crisis engulfing France is entirely due to one man. Emmanuel Macron violates the fundamental rules of democracy.