France's government is to deliver its 2025 budget on Thursday with plans for 60 billion euros ($65.68 billion) worth of tax hikes and spending cuts to tackle a spiralling fiscal deficit.

Cars partially submerged in a commercial zone in Givors, south of Lyon in central-eastern France, following heavy rainfall in the area on Thursday. Credit...Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/Agence France ...

France’s interior minister said Tuesday he has taken additional steps against any effort by one of the sons of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden to return to France. Omar bin Laden had been living ...

France has become the first country in the world to explicitly include the right to abortion in its constitution. Parliamentarians voted to revise the country's 1958 constitution to enshrine women ...

Freya: More tourists visit France than any other country! Here in the south they come for the beaches and the Mediterranean Sea. Chrissie: But that can cause problems. People throw away lots of ...

Departments in France are administrative regions similar to British or American counties. The areas covered by the red alert include Lyon, the third-largest city in the country, as well as Cannes ...

France is home to some of the most lively cities, bucolic villages and renowned wine regions on the globe. U.S. News considered factors like variety of attractions, lodging, weather and culinary ...

In order to address the economic consequences of COVID-19, on 3 September 2020 the French government set out its “France Relance” recovery plan. This is a massive €100 billion investment plan ...

With more than 90 million foreign visitors recorded in 2018 (including overseas destinations), France remains the world’s leading tourist destination (ahead of Spain, the United States, China and ...

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Today, France is in worse fiscal straits than Spain, Italy and Greece, with the deficit surging this month to 6.1 percent of economic output, from 5.5 percent last year. The debt has exploded to ...