PARIS/LONDON: The French government has launched its biggest wave of privatizations in more than a decade, kicking off the process with the sale of the...
PARIS: The trade war between the United States and China has plunged global growth to its lowest levels in a decade, the OECD said Thursday as it slashed its...
PARIS: The World Trade Organization’s appeals court, which seeks to resolve disputes between members, faces temporary collapse this year in the face of U.S....
BUCHAREST: Mergers in Europe’s fragmented banking sector are necessary to make the sector more resilient as the eurozone seeks to protect itself from future...
PARIS: A strong majority of people in wealthy countries want to tax the rich more and there is broad support for building up the welfare state in most...
PARIS: While France has experienced political turbulence and disappointing economic data in recent months, beneath the surface are signs of deeper change that...
BERLIN/PARIS: Europe expressed relief Thursday after Donald Trump and the European Commission chief agreed to tackle their trade row, although German business...
AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France / LONDON: PIran’s resident Hassan Rouhani has demanded that European countries do more to offset the U.S. sanctions after one of the...
SARCELLES, France: France, troubled for years by high unemployment, is now grappling with a lack of qualified workers. While it still has 3.5 million...
BERLIN/PARIS: After a decade of slow growth, rising unemployment and dwindling competitiveness, France elected a president Sunday who says he has a plan to...
PARIS: Marine Le Pen’s protectionist, anti-establishment message resonated most in parts of France with lower incomes, lower life expectancy and lower...
PARIS: High noon Sunday will bring the first hard sign of just how close France’s presidential race really is, with the release of early turnout figures for...
PARIS: If financial markets are a guide, France is facing a perilous period of turbulence and uncertainty as the presidential election nears. But the...
PARIS: Just how fast the Federal Reserve hikes rates next year will be the all-important question global investors will be hoping to get answered when the...
PARIS: On paper, French presidential favorite Francois Fillon’s free-market plans to cut business taxes, relax labor laws and shrink the public sector should...
PARIS: At first sight, France looks like it’s up to its old tricks. Angry trade unionists are disrupting public transport, burning tires and manning picket...
PARIS: France’s economy is not recovering quickly enough to cut unemployment and debt significantly, and will not do so without further reforms, the...
PARIS: Business confidence data from China and the eurozone will offer some pointers this week to where the global economy is going after the U.S. Federal...
ATHENS/PARIS: Greece said Tuesday it had sent a comprehensive reform proposal to its international creditors, urging them to be realistic and accept the plan...
PARIS: Charlie Hebdo will publish a front page showing a caricature of the Prophet Mohammad in its first edition since Islamist gunmen attacked the satirical...
PARIS: France laid down the gauntlet to EU partners Wednesday with a 2015 budget setting out how it would bring its borrowing back to within EU limits two...
PARIS: The OECD slashed its growth forecasts for major developed economies Monday, urging much more aggressive ECB stimulus to ward off the risk of deflation...
PARIS: France announced Wednesday it was breaking the latest in a long line of promises to European Union partners to cut its public deficit, conceding it now...
PARIS: Strangled by regulation and high prices, weak French housing investment is proving a major drag on the eurozone’s second-biggest economy as it...
PARIS: New Prime Minister Manuel Valls won a vote of confidence in parliament on Tuesday after unveiling planned tax and public spending cuts, vowing to bring...