FRANKFURT (Reuters) -The French government thinks the country has too many days off for its own good, but its proposal to cull some public holidays may not produce much of an economic benefit. Prime ...

France is plagued by political paralysis, a deepening deficit problem, slow economic growth and falling productivity growth. With all of these problems, an outside observer might think that the ...

PARIS, April 22 (Reuters) - Uncertain economic conditions and possible changes in interest rates could throw France's effort to trim its deficit to 3% of output by 2029 into doubt, France's fiscal ...

Hosting the 2024 Paris Olympics generated only moderate revenues for France, with an almost negligible impact on growth, while total public expenditure exceeded six billion euros ($7 billion), the ...

France's first-quarter data shows slowed growth, rising prices and collapsing exports, laying bare how quickly the Iran war's energy shock is feeding through to Europe's second-largest economy. View o ...

France must overcome its political impasse to tackle a debt burden that risks suffocating the economy, the head of the country’s central bank said. Bank of France Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau ...

Fiscally bankrupt, France is trapped in economic stagnation. The French left and populist right want to get rid of the 2023 reforms, which increased the national retirement age from 62 to 64. But ...

France’s economy will continue to expand in the fourth quarter despite heightened political and budget uncertainty continuing to weigh on businesses, the central bank said. After a surprisingly strong ...

Following a withdrawal from the Sahel region, France is seeking to expand its geostrategic influence in Africa by seeking allies. The first Africa Summit, to be held May 11–12 in Kenya, is intended to ...

France, like the United States, faces a mounting debt crisis. Public debt outstanding is now around 114% of France’s GDP. In the United States the ratio is about 100%. Curiously, sovereign borrowing ...