Louis de Bourbon, Duke of Anjou and heir to France’s last reigning monarch, Louis XVI, has spoken out amid the ongoing political turmoil in the country, which has seen its eighth prime minister appointed under Macron’s tenure and fourth since parliamentary elections in July last year.

A murder trial without a body which transfixed France has ended with 38-year-old painter-decorator Cédric Jubillar convicted of killing his wife. Throughout the four-week trial, Jubillar maintained his innocence but he was found guilty by a jury and sentenced to 30 years in jail.

France’s latest political crisis has eased, for now. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu narrowly survived a no-confidence vote on Thursday, averting another government collapse and giving President Emmanuel Macron a brief respite before an even tougher fight over the national budget.

France imposed a ban on cattle exports and events such as bullfighting, the agriculture ministry said on Friday as it tries to contain the highly contagious lumpy skin disease sweeping through farms in the country for the first time.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday reappointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after his resignation, to try again to form a government in a bid to end the country's political deadlock.

French politicians agree that public finances need to be shored up and this consensus keeps financial markets calm despite the political instability France has been experiencing since mid 2024, the head of the IMF's European department Alfred Kammer said.

This, of course, was Charles de Gaulle’s campaign in 1958 for a Fifth Republic. The words were uttered by Paul Reynaud, who headed the consultative committee that drafted a new constitution, which de Gaulle put to a referendum that year.

As a new prime minister seeks stability, three government shake-ups since last summer have already taken their toll on the French economy.

France’s newly reappointed Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu named a new government Sunday, as he faces pressure to urgently produce a budget and quell political turmoil that is scaring businesses and staining the country’s image.

France is pressing the European Union for a third delay on new rules that will impose higher capital requirements on banks, arguing the current timeline will put the bloc’s lenders at an unfair disadvantage,

Legendary actress Brigitte Bardot has reportedly been hospitalized in her home country of France, according to French news outlet Var-Matin. Bardot, 91, has been receiving care for the last three weeks,