PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named centrist ally François Bayrou as prime minister, after a historic ...

Francois Bayrou, the country’s fourth prime minister this year, faces an agenda packed with political divisions, fiscal woes ...

President Macron reluctantly appoints a would-be ‘reconciler’ as prime minister, while rightist Marine Le Pen rides even ...

So farewell Michel Barnier, the man who will now be best remembered not as the suave face of the EU in the Brexit ...

In a divided nation struggling with polarised politics, high debt, and a ballooning deficit, the task before 73-year-old ...

France’s new Prime Minister Francois Bayrou’s meeting with Marine Le Pen on Monday left the far-right leader “more positive” ...

PARIS - When veteran centrist Francois Bayrou, France's new prime minister, was education minister in the 1990s, his plan to increase subsidies for private schools led to nationwide protests. He ...

Francois Bayrou came into the spotlight in the 2002 presidential campaign when he slapped a child who tried to pick his ...

France’s Prime Minister Francois Bayrou will meet with far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Monday, kicking off an effort to ...

Within hours of being appointed, France’s new prime minister Francois Bayrou faced his first ordeal: the country’s credit ...

The fall of the French government could have dire consequences for New Caledonia, which is teetering on the brink of economic ...

France is bracing for a heavy death toll in its Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, its poorest department, after cyclone Chido ravaged the island over the weekend and threatened a humanitarian ...