"I wish being optimistic about France didn't require so much hope that maybe things will go right," Paul Krugman said in a new assessment.

October 14, 2026Economic News - Special EditionA quiet but significant change is occurring in global financial markets.One of ...

France's Economy Minister Roland Lescure denied on Tuesday that the country was trapped in a debt "snowball", as he pressed ...

France’s unprecedented wave of student protests has laid bare the country’s growing financial pressures, which will only ...

The French government desperately needs a return to strong growth if it is to contain its rapidly rising debts.

No French government has balanced its books for 52 years. Even so, the French debt pile, at 119 percent of gross domestic ...

Amid protests, 85% of French adults say their economy is bad, a higher share than in any of 17 other high-income countries ...

France's gross domestic product is expected to rise by just 0.4% in 2026, down from 0.9% in 2025, according to projections ...

French bond investors are demanding sharply higher interest rates, a cautionary development for other high-debt countries.

The Bharti Enterprises chairman will receive the Legion of Honour insignia at a ceremony in New Delhi on October 28.

Supermarket staffers were confronted by pools of water beneath freezers and spoiled produce earlier this week after hackers ...

The postwar model of a welfare state run by civil servants charged with modernizing the economy, tempering market forces and ...