President Emmanuel Macron’s inability to find a government that can pass a new budget is hobbling his efforts to influence Europe’s agenda.

While France has a long history of hefty overspending, economists say political turmoil – which has stalled policymaking – is bringing the country’s debt problem to a head.

Kylian Mbappe scored for the 10th successive game for club and country as France continued their winning start to World Cup 2026 qualifying. The Real Madrid forward scored his 53rd international goal in first-half injury-time, dancing through Azerbaijan's defence and placing a shot into the bottom right-hand corner.

The European Parliament urged the EU on Thursday to impose sanctions on Turkey after President Tayyip Erdogan this month paid a visit to the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north of Cyprus.

The European Union's top official warns that Russia is conducting a "targeted gray zone campaign" against Europe.

France has been accused of misusing a European Union -funded surveillance aircraft to spy on Channel crossings. The European Court of Auditors (ECA), the bloc’s financial watchdog, said the plane had been deployed outside the Schengen free-travel zone for a third of its flight time, in contravention of the rules.

France sees crops developed using gene-editing techniques as different to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and opposes a European Union court decision to put them under strict GMO regulations, the country's agriculture minister said.

EU and French regulators report no demonstrated link between prenatal paracetamol exposure and autism, and current pregnancy recommendations remain unchanged.

BENGALURU] European shares tanked on Friday (Oct 10), erasing weekly gains in a last-minute slide as renewed trade war fears sparked by fresh threats from US President Donald Trump rattled

The French government said on Friday that a new report on deforestation confirmed its opposition to the current version of the EU-Mercosur trade deal, the office of Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Friday.