France's new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his government resigned on Monday, hours after Lecornu announced his cabinet line-up, making it the shortest-lived administration in modern French history and deepening the country's political crisis.

Sébastien Lecornu said the government was ready for “a new debate” on the issue, a major concession as he faces no-confidence votes that threaten to topple his government again this week.

PARIS (AP) — Legislators toppled France’s government in a confidence vote on Monday, a new crisis for Europe’s second-largest economy that obliges President Emmanuel Macron to search for a fourth prime minister in 12 months. Prime Minister François ...

The sense that France is caught in a doom loop was underscored Monday when Sébastien Lecornu—Macron’s fourth prime minister in just over a year— resigned from his post. He quit a mere month into the job after struggling to form a cabinet and unite lawmakers in the National Assembly around a budget that narrows France’s yawning deficit.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has postponed President Emmanuel Macron's controversial pension reform, delaying the increase in the retirement age to 64 until January 2028, in an olive branch to the opposition to end the current political impasse.

The current crisis in French polity dates back to the collapse of the traditional political system that revolved around the centre-Left and centre-Right outfits

The consequences of the president’s weakness will be felt beyond France’s borders – with Vladimir Putin the main winner

An increasingly tense dispute between Paris and Algiers has spiralled into what French diplomatic sources told Euronews is the “biggest diplomatic crisis” since Algeria gained independence in 1962. First triggered by arguments over the contested ...