He brandished a chainsaw at campaign rallies, to signify his eagerness to clear-cut the thickets of bureaucracy and ...

Inflation came in below the ECB’s 2% target, a spot of relief for French policymakers contending with budget deficit woes.

Consumer prices were 1.8% higher on year in January, the same rate as in December.

The economy returned to stagnation as 2024 drew to a close, a blow to its hopes for a recovery as it braces for the ...

The European Central Bank is cutting its key interest rate, a step to boost an economy that’s struggling to grow as consumers ...

Gross domestic product was 0.1% less in the fourth quarter than the third, when a boost from the games held in Paris in July and August helped the French economy grow at the fastest rate last year.

France’s beleaguered economy was given a boost by the Olympics Games in Paris last summer but political upheaval has ensued ...

The French economy shrank by 0.1% Q/Q in Q4 2024, missing market expectations of flat growth and reversing from a 0.4% growth ...

But if parliament finally agreed on a budget that is considered too lenient in reducing the public debt that now represents over 110 per cent of GDP, France would face higher borrowing costs, damaging ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union finance ministers will approve French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou's deficit-cutting ...

The U.S. economy did "remarkably well" in the aftermath of the pandemic and outperformed other advanced economies and did better than in past recessions, Yellen told members of the New York ...

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