French President Nicolas Sarkozy told cheering workers at France's oldest nuclear power plant at Fessenheim that he will keep it running and slammed his Socialist opponent François Hollande ...
France’s budget ministry announced on Wednesday that the central budget deficit had fallen at the end of 2011, and was hailed as a sign that the country was making financial progress.
France has posted a record 69.6 billion euro trade deficit for 2011 although the trade gap for December alone showed a slight improvement at 4.99 billion euros, compared with 5.35 billion euros in ...
The strike in France by airline pilots, flight attendants and ground staff has entered its second day with significant disruptions to Air France long-haul flights and signs the industrial action ...
French trade unions say they will do everything they can to stop a bill which would impose new conditions on strikes in the aviation sector from being passed into law.
French private sector activity bounced back in January to it highest reading in five months according to the purchasing manager’s index compiled by the
A cave containing 25,000-year-old paintings and the climats of one the world’s most famous wine regions are France’s candidates to be added to the UN’s World Heritage status in ...
Moody's rating agency says France will keep its triple-A credit rating but said it was still reviewing whether it would maintain its "stable" outlook for the debt-laden country.
French politicians are squabbling over how important Friday's downgrading by the Standard & Poor's rating agency is and who is responible. But what will it mean for ordinary French people ...
Europe was plunged into crisis again and the French government was on the defensive after the Standard & Poor’s agency stripped France and Austria of their top-notch triple A and either ...
Nigerian trade unionists have denied any connection between their general strike and sectarian violence in the north of the country, as oil workers threaten to stop crude production in support of ...
A Paris court has rejected a bid by heirs of the founder of French carmaker Renault to be compensated for the nationalisation of the company at the end of World War II when their grandfather was ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told journalists on Monday that she could envisage a financial transaction tax applying only to eurozone countries, though she stressed that not all of her ...
A Paris court has declared SeaFrance cross-channel ferry company bankrupt and ruled "unviable" the plan for a workers' co operative to buy out the company.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosts the first major meeting of the year on the euro as differences emerge over how to tackle the economic crisis and a series of disappointing economic data ...
