The Latest Breaking News from Sébastien Lecornu

Threatened by two motions of no-confidence, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has asked the Minister of the Interior to look into the possibility of holding legislative elections on the same dates as municipal elections.

France has begun the New Year with a shake-up of political privileges, long criticised as being out of touch. The move comes as the government grapples with increasing voter mistrust, according to an annual poll, and record levels of public debt.

The French parliament on Tuesday passed last-minute legislation to keep the government in business into January after the divided legislature failed to agree a full budget for the coming year. The Senate gave its green light in a late-night vote after MPs in the lower house cleared the bill earlier…

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu will bring together the country's main political leaders on Monday to try and find "the way forward" after senators and MPs once again failed to reach agreement on the state budget for next year.

French lawmakers failed Friday to agree a 2026 budget in joint committee talks, forcing government to seek emergency legislation to roll over 2025 budget.

Athens has the option for a fourth frigate, which was approved by parliament in summer and formally agreed with Paris in November.

France wants to delay member states’ vote on the agreement amid mounting farmer anger. But the EU executive says a shifting global geoeconomic landscape makes the deal urgent.

France is creating a last-minute hurdle for a major trade deal between the European Union and the Mercosur bloc

France’s National Assembly narrowly approved the 2026 social security budget late Tuesday, giving Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu an important victory as he pushed a compromise through a deeply divided parliament without using article 49.3, which lets a government force a bill through without a vote.

The high-stakes vote gives some respite for the weakened French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu

France’s social security budget heads into a knife-edge vote on Tuesday that could plunge Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu's government into a new political crisis and open a €30-billion gap in funding for welfare, pensions and healthcare.