France's Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said Tuesday he wanted to reduce the number of public holidays as part of an urgent plan to tackle what he called the "curse" of his country's debt.

France is missing out on the investor optimism that has defined Europe’s markets this year, hamstrung by its strained public ...

That's among a raft of spending cuts laid out by Prime Minister Francois Bayrou in a sweeping, and potentially doomed, budget plan. He argued that removing two state holidays would bring in tax ...

The French Prime Minister announced, among other things, a freeze on social spending, €5 billion in cuts to public healthcare ...

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou proposed scrapping two public holidays as part of a 43.8 billion euro (US$50.88 billion) budget squeeze outlined on Tuesday, even as opposition parties threaten ...