François Bayrou

Even the EU’s most protectionist countries are realizing that they need new friends to trade with as their oldest ally goes rogue.

Threats against Bayrou are increasing a week after Le Pen was effectively banned from running for president.

French prime minister also says Trump’s trade war will cut France’s economic growth by more than 0.5 percentage point.

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French president adds that “threats made against judges are absolutely unbearable and intolerable.”

The race for the French presidency in 2027 has just become more unpredictable. We analyze the winners and losers from a bombshell court ruling.

Marine Le Pen has been trying to normalize the National Rally in recent years, but may be tempted to wreak havoc after her guilty verdict.

Politicians from France, Italy and Ireland front for the drinks industry as it tries to escape Trump’s 200 percent tariffs.

Marine Le Pen’s political future may be cut short. Her father Jean-Marie is dead. Their movement, however, is set for a long life.

Paris goes weak at the knees as another trade rival singles out France’s famed wines and spirits.

Brussels is giving itself more time to coordinate its response to U.S. tariffs.

An early show of European unity is being tested as capitals seek cover from U.S. president’s tariff onslaught. 

Cracks started to appear within the government over the issue in recent days.

Paris is seeking to deport Algerian nationals it deems a threat, but Algiers won’t take them back.

“Kentucky bourbon has been included as if it were a trade threat,” François Bayrou said in an interview with France Inter.

The French prime minister’s opponents were quick to attack him for what they see as a volte-face.

Rating agency keeps negative outlook as “political deadlock and polarization” complicate the government’s effort to tackle debt.

The economy ministry is mulling leveraging the country’s Public Investment Bank to finance the industry, several officials told POLITICO. 

Officials in Paris are also privately warming to the idea.

Macron’s calls for more military spending without tax increases have sparked fears over future cuts to social programs.

The French president made clear that foreign policy was still under his remit.

François Bayrou calls U.S. president’s treatment of Zelenskyy “a staggering scene marked by brutality.”

But is it enough for the central bank just to take its foot off the brake?