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24 Mar 23
Raising the French retirement age could benefit the government’s fiscal balance in the medium term after an initial negative impact, but the political fallout could hurt the president’s chance of...
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17 Mar 23
French president Emmanuel Macron has tried to bypass the National Assembly to raise the retirement age – a move he sees as vital to fixing public finances – sparking countrywide protests.
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21 Jul 20
EU leaders have agreed a “massive” €750bn Covid-19 recovery package to help the 27 member states’ economies bounce back after the pandemic.
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24 Jun 20
EU leaders have just three weeks to find common ground on a €750bn post-coronavirus recovery programme, with wrangling continuing over whether countries should be paid in grants or loans.
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28 Apr 20
Emmanuel Macron’s “expensive” response to the ‘yellow vest’ movement is partly to blame for France’s public deficit rising in 2019, the country’s court of auditors has found.
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17 Mar 20
France is mobilising €45bn to help keep its economy afloat, the finance minister announced, after president Emmanuel Macron declared the country was “at war” with the coronavirus.
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26 Feb 20
French president Emmanuel Macron’s deficit reduction plans have faltered due to deviations from his planned programme of cuts, according to the country’s national audit office.
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17 Dec 19
French president Emmanuel Macron suffered a blow to his pension reform ambitions as the high commissioner for pensions resigned amid countrywide strikes.
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7 Nov 19
The French and Chinese leaders have reaffirmed their support for the Paris Agreement on climate change, calling it “an irreversible process”.
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30 Oct 19
The French economy grew by 0.3% in the last quarter, defying the global slowdown.
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27 Sep 19
Multi-billion-euro tax cuts will be in France’s next budget, as president Emmanuel Macron hopes to maintain popular support for his economic reforms.
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27 Aug 19
Brazil has rejected the G7’s offer of $22m of aid to help fight fires in the Amazon – at least until French President Emmanuel Macron withdraws his “insults” to Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro.
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20 Jun 18
The leaders of Germany and France have finalised “historic breakthrough” plans, which include a common budget, to overhaul the 19-member eurozone.
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25 Apr 18
France and Germany will press US president Donald Trump to permanently exempt the EU bloc from steel and aluminium tariffs as the leaders meet this week, the EU trade chief has affirmed.
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19 Mar 18
The French and German leaders have met to start work on a new ‘roadmap’ for major reform of the eurozone, which is likely to include changes from budgetary issues to trade.
24 Mar 23Raising the French retirement age could benefit the government’s fiscal balance in the medium term after an initial negative impact, but the political fallout could hurt the president’s chance of...
17 Mar 23French president Emmanuel Macron has tried to bypass the National Assembly to raise the retirement age – a move he sees as vital to fixing public finances – sparking countrywide protests.
21 Jul 20EU leaders have agreed a “massive” €750bn Covid-19 recovery package to help the 27 member states’ economies bounce back after the pandemic.
7 Nov 19The French and Chinese leaders have reaffirmed their support for the Paris Agreement on climate change, calling it “an irreversible process”.
27 Aug 19Brazil has rejected the G7’s offer of $22m of aid to help fight fires in the Amazon – at least until French President Emmanuel Macron withdraws his “insults” to Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro.
20 Jun 18The leaders of Germany and France have finalised “historic breakthrough” plans, which include a common budget, to overhaul the 19-member eurozone.
