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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The French economy last year grew at its weakest pace since 2020, hampered by the effect of U.S. tariffs that buffeted European economies, though Spain's run of beating forecasts endured. France's ...

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 first-quarter data shows slowed growth, rising prices and collapsing exports, laying bare how quickly the Iran war's ...

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 ...

By Gabriel Stargardter PARIS, April 14 (Reuters) - U.S. officials who met leaders of France's far-right National Rally were underwhelmed by their economic plans, two diplomatic sources said, in a blow ...

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 ...