European markets were muted at the open on Wednesday as investors braced for a crucial no-confidence vote by French lawmakers ...

Germany's DAX ( ^GDAXI) rose 0.7% and the CAC ( ^FCHI) in Paris headed 0.4% into the green. The European retail and tech led ...

French lawmakers will vote on Wednesday on no-confidence motions which are all but certain to oust the government, throwing ...

The euro was trading little changed as the French government faces a no confidence vote later after Prime Minister Michel ...

Kathleen Brooks, research director at XTB, said if Barnier's government did survive, then there would likely be a big recovery in French bonds, stocks and the euro, though a defeat would see the ...

"At a time when economic growth in France is slowing markedly, this is bad news. The public deficit will remain high, debt ...

The irony is unlikely to be lost on Emmanuel Macron: while France’s fire-struck Notre-Dame cathedral is to reopen after being saved in extremis from total collapse, the country’s government is about ...

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier made a last-ditch attempt to rally support for his government. Far left and far right members of parliament are preparing to bring it down in a no confidence vote.

The immediate catalyst for the no-confidence motion was Barnier's decision to invoke a constitutional mechanism to pass the ...

France’s prime minister, Michel Barnier, is facing a no-confidence vote that could leave the country without a functioning ...

French lawmakers will vote on Wednesday on no-confidence motions which are all but certain to oust the fragile coalition of ...

Barnier's downfall could deepen France's fiscal woes. With the country's public deficit projected at 6.1 percent of GDP this ...