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France has said it was ready to seek other buyers for its biggest shipyard should Italy refuse a 50-50 ownership split, before both countries pledged to find a solution next month. French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire, in Rome for talks, said yesterday in ...

By Leigh Thomas, Michel Rose and Gwénaëlle Barzic AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France (Reuters) - A government push to make France more "finance-friendly" is raising Paris' chances of attracting Brexit-fleeing banks from London although it is raising its game at a late ...

By Jean-Baptiste Vey PARIS (Reuters) - French authorities on Friday stepped up efforts to attract London banks to Paris after Brexit by pledging to cut labour costs and ensure they do not face tougher regulations than European rivals. Many international banks ...

Simone Veil, the Auschwitz survivor who became a towering figure in French politics after legalising abortion despite fierce opposition, was hailed as "the best of France" today following her death at 89. Veil, a women's rights icon who served as the first ...

By Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) - France will take urgent steps to rein in a spiralling deficit, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Thursday, warning voters they would have to tighten their belts in support of the next generation and the country's ...

By Andrew MacAskill, Anjuli Davies and William James LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's left-wing opposition party has held a series of meetings with top finance executives, setting out how it would levy taxes on one of the world's biggest financial trading centres ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today welcomed Australia's joining of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) and said it will provide a great boost to the grouping. He conveyed this to Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop when she called on him here, ...

By Michel Rose and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) - Prime Minister Edouard Philippe told lawmakers on Tuesday that it was time to end France's addiction to easy public spending, promising to cut expenditures over the next five years and rein in debts that he ...

French ex-prime minister Manuel Valls said today he was quitting the Socialist Party and would be allied with President Emmanuel Macron's centrist group, in another humiliation for the former ruling party. "Part of my political life is coming to an end. I am ...